The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

Antonio José Bolívar Proaño lives in El Idilio, a remote location in the Amazon region of the Shuar Indians, with whom he learned to know the jungle and its laws, to respect the animals that inhabit it, but also to hunt and discover the most indecipherable trails.
One day he decides to passionately start reading the romance novels that, twice a year, dentist Rubicundo Loachamín brings him, to fill the solitary equatorial nights of his announced old age. With them, he seeks to distance himself from the stupid bravado of those "gringos" and gold prospectors who think they dominate the jungle because they arrive armed to the teeth, but who don't know how to face a beast whose cubs they have killed.

Described in clear and concise language, the adventures and emotions of old Bolívar Proaño have long won the hearts of millions of readers worldwide, transforming Luis Sepúlveda's novel into a "classic" of Latin American literature.