The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

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The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

Author(s): Luis Sepúlveda
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Binding: Paperback
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Winner of Spain’s Tigre Juan Prize, this evocative novella unfolds in El Idilio, a remote Ecuadoran river town, where widower Antonio José Bolívar seeks solace in tear-jerking romances.

Delivered from a brothel downstream, these love stories offer temporary escape as Antonio observes the folly of modern man and reflects on his own solitude.

When a menacing task emerges in the jungle, he must draw on the quiet insights and empathy inspired by fiction to guide his community through peril.

Key Themes

  • Solitude and escape
  • Humanity versus modernity
  • Nature’s challenges
  • Power of storytelling

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