Luis Sepúlveda

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In a remote river town deep in the Ecuadoran jungle, Antonio José Bolívar seeks refuge in amorous novels. But tourists and opportunists are making inroads into the area, and the balance of nature is making a dangerous shift.

"A poignant novel with a resounding environmental message." Publisher's Weekly

"The pages that follow are extraordinary. Intelligence against cunning’ Antonio Enrique, Ideal

"One of those rare contemporary best-sellers in literature in which popularity and quality coincide." Antonio Chumbile, Biblioteca Mario Vargas Llosa

"We are, in all probability, before one of the best literary creations of this new narrative that is based on what they call ‘magic of reality’, and with which Sepúlveda and other authors seek to separate the waters from that which gave rise to ‘magical realism’’. Juan Pablo Cárdenas, Análisis

‘It doesn't take twenty lines to bewitch the reader with its false lightness and its cunning disguised as innocence. Afterwards, one can't stop reading until we reach an ending that we judge too quickly, just for pleasure.’ Pierre Lepape, Le Monde

"A wild and beautiful book, constructed like an American thriller." Le Monde

"Passionate, vibrant...sharply told...full of poetry." The New York Times

"Must be read by the young and very young, who will inherit this world" Grazia Cherchi

"Sepúlveda marries the melancholy sweetness of Osvaldo Soriano with the visionary madness of Fitzcarraldo. He has a gift for concise narrative, evocative imagery and the stylisation of the complex." La Stampa

"Narrating, writing, was for Sepúlveda always a way of defending ideas, denouncing infamy and celebrating dignity." Ranieri Polese