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Title: The Old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepulveda, Peter Bush ISBN: 0-15-600272-8 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 14 July, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful and magical
Comment: I read this book in a university anthropology class, and I loved it. It is a extraordinary book about an elderly man in the Ecuadoran jungle who spends his days reading and thinking about love and faraway places. When nature is disturbed in his home, the old man is placed in a conflict between man and nature. It is a short book, full of beautiful imagery and poetry.
Rating: 5
Summary: absolutely satisfying
Comment: i picked up this book, without any expectations for it, because it looked like a thin and easy to read book; but i was thoroughly surprised by its beauty and its fluent translation. i learned much from this incredible novel, about ecuador, about ocelots; but most importantly i learned what we are doing to the depleting rain forests in the world, and how this is affecting both those who inhabit it and ourselves. this book is poignant and picaresque, and it seems to evoke a sense of passing of a world and a self that find it increasingly difficult to continue to exist in the current environmental conditions. i think everyone who loves animals, who is disturbed by the way technology is destroying the natural world, and who is fascinated with cultures and peoples should not give this book a miss.
Rating: 5
Summary: A STUNNINGLY DRAWN FABLE...
Comment: ...and one to which it would do us very well to listen. Sepulveda's novel -- succinct yet full of beautiful writing -- is entertaining and compelling, but it also has a great lesson to teach about the way we interact with the natural world.
His main character -- the 'old man' of the title -- is very much a loner in his village, on a river on the verge of the dense Amazon jungle. He has experienced much joy and sorrow in his life -- and he has been sensitive enough to learn from what he has seen and felt over the years. He is just literate enough to read the love stories he adores so much -- he has to sound out unfamiliar words repeatedly, savoring them, until he feels comfortable with them. His life has given him the wisdom and patience to give them the attention and respect they deserve -- and he views the world in which he lives, with all of its plants and animals and indigenous people, with the same healthy and reverent respect. It's too bad the same can't be said for the other settlers in the village -- or in most people in the world, for that matter.
The old man is very friendly with and knowledgeable in the ways of the Shuar Indians, who inhabit the forest -- he has even lived with them at one point in his life. His knowledge of the natural world makes him very valuable to his neighbors when a female ocelot goes on a killing spree -- he is pressed into service to hunt her down and kill her.
His thoughts on his world -- and the people around him -- are gently but convincingly communicated by Sepulveda's beautiful writing. This is a novel to savor, word by word -- much as some of the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Carlos Fuentes. It contains so much more than this slim volume would indicate at first glance. It's a wonderful read.
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Title: Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya, Indira Ganesan ISBN: 0451528239 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: HABIBI by Naomi Shihab Nye ISBN: 0689825234 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Walkabout by James Vance Marshall ISBN: 0887410995 Publisher: Sundance Pubns (Mass Market) Pub. Date: December, 1984 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare ISBN: 0486275574 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 04 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $1.00 |
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Title: Master Harold...and the Boys by Athol Fugard ISBN: 0140481877 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: November, 1984 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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