"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, setting an enraged mother ocelot on a bloody rampage through the village. The old man, a hunter who once lived among the Shuar Indians and knows the jungle better than anyone, is pressured by the village's detested mayor to join the expedition to kill the animal. Reluctantly. the old man is forced into the middle of a raging conflict between man and nature that will end in a powerfully climactic confrontation.

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Sepúlveda, Luis

United States

HarperVia

Un viejo que leía novelas de amor

Antonio Jose Bolivar Proana takes refuge in his books. He readers paperback books about faraway places while cursing the gringos that bring tragedy into his life, the mayor who brings corruption into his life, and gold prospectors who bring opportunism into his life. He is an old man who curses all those who use and abuse the colorful jungle of his homeland, the rain-soaked Ecuadoran jungle .

Penguin Group USA

Written by the author--a Chilean ex-patriate--of The Old Man Who Read Love Stories, a novel of intrigue follows a race between a onetime guerilla and a former spy to recover a stolen treasure.

The Name of a Bullfighter

Ruta, Suzanne

Contemporary

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

Antonio Jose Boliva Proano, an old man who has lived in peace with the Shuar Indians in Ecuador's jungle for over 40 years, takes part in a hunt for an ocelot whose cubs were killed by a gringo and who now kills men

Harcourt

Nestled deep in the Ecuadoran jungle stands the remote river town of El Idilio, where widower Antonio Jose Bolivar seeks refuge in the tear-jerking novels brought to him from the brothel downstream. But the love stories offer Bolivar only temporary relief from what he judges to be the increasing stupidity of modern man--and the task he must complete. Winner of Spain's Tigre Juan Prize.

Mariner Books

This “engrossing, thoughtful noir novel” (Publishers Weekly) pits a former South american Marxist guerrilla against an ex-Stasi agent in a race to uncover the truth about a cache of medieval coins stolen during World War II. Translated by Suzanne Ruta.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Harcourt, Brace & Co.

Published in 20 countries, sold over 1 million copies, and the subject of a feature film, THE STORY OF A SEAGULL AND THE CAT WHO TAUGHT HER TO FLY has finally come to the U.S.! It's migration time and as a mother gull dives into the water to catch a herring she's caught in an oil slick! Thinking of the egg she is about to lay she manages to extract herself and fly to the nearest port. Exhausted, she lands on a balcony where Zorba the cat is sunning himself. Zorba wants to get help, but the gull knows it's too late and she extracts three promises from him: 1) That he won't eat the egg, 2) that he'll take care of the chick until it hatches, and 3) that he'll teach it to fly. Well the first two are hard enough, but the third one is surely impossible. Isn't it?

The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly

Children's Books

Animals

Arthur A. Levine Books

A cat. A seagull. An impossible task. A worldwide bestseller and the subject of a feature film, THE STORY OF A SEAGULL... is finally out in paperback! Her wings burdened by an oil slick, a seagull struggles to the nearest port to lay her final egg. Exhausted, she lands on a balcony where Zorba the cat is sunning himself. She extracts three extraordinary promises from him: that he will watch over the egg, that he will not EAT the egg, and that, when it's time, he will teach the baby gull to fly. The first two promises are hard enough, but the third one is surely impossible. Isn't it?

The Story Of A Seagull And The Cat Who Taught Her To Fly

Scholastic Paperbacks

Sepulveda packs more than three decades of Chilean history into this lean and darkly humorous novel. Three aging revolutionaries-Cacho Salinas, Lolo Garmendia, and Lucho Arancibia-reunite to pull off one final, spectacular heist, gathering in a hideout to await the arrival of the Shadow, a legendary Robin Hood-type anarchist. As the comrades with their graying beards, thinning hair, and chubby physiques wait, they revisit the past and ruminate on losses: after Pinochet's coup, Cacho and Lolo fled to Europe, while Lucho, whose brothers were murdered by the regime, stayed and endured torture that has left him brain damaged. Meanwhile, and unbeknownst to the trio, the Shadow lies dead on the sidewalk, struck down by a freak accident. Although the narrator frequently runs away with the story, trailing off into history lessons, Sepulveda maintains a high level of suspense as the police investigate the Shadow's death, and Cacho, Lolo, and Lucho decide whether to go through with their plan, turning their collective sorrows into a celebration of the resilience of the human spirit. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved."

The Shadow of What We Were

Europa Editions

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The Old Man Who Read Love Stories: A Novel

Un viejo que leía novelas de amor

The Name of a Bullfighter

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

The Name of a Bullfighter

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly

The Story Of A Seagull And The Cat Who Taught Her To Fly

The Shadow of What We Were