The Old Man Who Read Love Stories: A Novel by Luis Sepúlveda (Paperback)

Fiction - World Literature - Chile - Ecuador - Classics - Literary - Nature & The Environment - Hispanic & Latino RELEASE DATE: 3/19/2024  (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER'S WAREHOUSE) TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH BY PETER BUSH INTRODUCTION BY ALVARO ENRIGUE “Gripping and passionate . . . keenly recounted . . . full of poetry.”—New York Times Now in a beautiful new edition, the spellbinding classic tale of man and nature, honor, and adventure, in which the peaceful life of an aging, book-loving widower in the Ecuadorean jungle is upended when an ignorant tourist provokes a mother ocelot. Antonio José Bolivar Proaño lives quietly in a river town in the rain-soaked jungle of Ecuador that is slowly being overrun by tourists and opportunists. Having lost his wife decades earlier, he takes refuge in books—paperback novels of faraway places and bittersweet love, delivered to him by the dentist who visits the village twice a year. One day, a greedy trader pushes nature too far, se