Novels
- The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (1993)
- The Name of a Bullfighter (1996)
- The Shadow of What We Were (2010)
Chapter Books
- The Story Of A Seagull And The Cat Who Taught Her To Fly (2003)
- The Story of a Snail Who Discovered the Importance of Being Slow (2017)
Non fiction
- Full Circle (1996)
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Luis Sepúlveda Books Overview
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
In this simple but haunting tale of an old man who becomes the mediator between the ravages of Western civilisation and the vengeance of the threatened natural world, the great exiled Chilean writer Luis Sepulveda poignantly highlights the tragedy that lies at the core of man’s attempts to destroy the Amazon wilderness in pursuit of his own greed. This beautifully modulated novel has won major literary prizes and has been published in more than twenty countries. When white prospectors are killed by a female oeclot crazed with grief at the slaughter of her cubs, there is only one man in the remote village of El Idilio who possesses the skill and knowledge to hunt her down. Antonio Jose Bolivar Proano has lived with the native Shuar and learn the ways of the jungle. The lore he has absorbed tells him that it is sacrilege to slay the noble beast of the forest, but as a member of the encroaching white race he knows that the animal must die. Nature is out of balance. Antonio Jose Bolivar has another secret: he can read and he has a passion for love stories so long as they involve great suffering and have a happy ending. The dentist, on his twice yearly visits to El Idilio, brings a fresh supply of romances, and as the old man loses himself in the world of star crossed lovers he can forget the painful barbarity of his fellow men. As he sets out on the mission only he can fulfil, Antonio Jose Bolivar leads us on a journey that will enchant, enthral and remain long in the memory.
The Name of a Bullfighter
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.
The Story Of A Seagull And The Cat Who Taught Her To Fly
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?
Full Circle
Part autobiography, part travel memoir, ‘Full Circle‘ brings us the distinctive voice of one of South America’s most compelling writers. Chilean Sepulveda takes us on a ‘journey without itinerary’, meeting extravagant characters and extraordinary situations, from sleepy tropical towns to the landscapes of legendary Patagonia.
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