The Old Man Who Read Love Stories - Softcover
A killer ocelot is hunted down in the Amazon jungle by an old man. Native lore tells him it is sacrilege to slay her but, as a white man, he knows she must die. The novel dramatizes the ravages of Western civilization on the natural world.
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'If Ernest Hemingway had been a magic realist he might have been able to write a story like this bitter and endearing fable. Luis Sepulveda is yet another strong and original writer from Chile' - Ursula K. Le Guin
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Luis Sepulveda, born in northern Chile in 1949, has written short stories, novellas, plays and essays. Due to his political activities in the students' movement he was forced to leave Chile and then travelled through Latin America. In 1980, he moved to Germany where he lived for more than ten years with his family. He moved to Gijon in Spain in 1997. Sepulveda has won numerous literary awards and his work has been translated into over thirty languages.
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- PublisherSceptre
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0340604573
- ISBN 13 9780340604571
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages128
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