The old man who read love stories 2001 the old man who read love stories not rated 1h 55min adventure drama 7 march 2001 france a man is forced to confront a dangerous female jaguar and his own past through the sacrificial killing of the beast he has grown to love. Luis sepulveda a sensitive man a beautiful man a writer and journalist from chile who died of covid 19 this spring the old man who read love stories is one of luis sepulvedas most beloved books a timeless classic that speaks powerfully to all of us in our worldwide community. I would love to read more by sepulveda who died in april 2020 from covid 19 that his first novel about an old man in the amazonian jungle could so enthrall me seems to bode very well for the quality of his subsequent works his writing is spare but evocative bringing the setting and his characters clearly to life without a single wasted . The old man who read love stories an ecological novel by chilean writer luis sepulveda first published in spain in 1989 peter bushs english translation published in america in 1993 this story is a parable about the encroachment and ecological consequences of non native humans especially hunters gold prospectors and politicians on the