Un Viejo Que Leía Novelas de Amor / The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (Paperback)

from diasukie

This is a very down to earth book that will leave you thinking about it for a long time after it is read. A story of how one person can saves his sanity by reading books with a happy ending. I started out writing a short review about a book I enjoyed where the author was able to uncover allot of ...

from

A short but poignant novella juxtaposing the positions of living in harmony with nature and attempting to conquer it. It is also a love story in itself, a love of books, nature, and some humans.

from BookConcierge

From the book jacket: An old man lives in a village on the Nangaritza River. The village is so small the dentist comes only twice a year, to pull teeth and bring books to the old man - love stories, the kind with maximum heartache. This is a story of the jungle, green hell and Eden; of the Shuar ...

from allison.sivak

I enjoyed the interaction between the old man and the ocelot in this book. I did, however, find the tone to be quite didactic. Further, while some characters received a nuanced telling, others, like the village mayor, were lampooned and oversimplified. Especially when it comes to ethics and socia...

from LukeS

Perhaps because he sees so little love in his life, an older man in a village in the Ecuadorian rain forest insatiably reads stories about it. Sepulveda sets up his protaganist as an isolated man, whose cleverness and wisdom is unfamiliar even to the folks in his native village. If that's true, t...