Luis Sepulveda, Author, Peter Bush, Translator Mariner Books $12.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-15-600272-1
In a remote Ecuadorean river town, an elderly widower-who finds comfort in reading romance novels brought to him by the visiting dentist-joins in the hunt for an enraged ocelot whose cubs were killed by a gold prospector. (July)
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Luis Sepulveda, Author, Peter Bush, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $14.95 (131p) ISBN 978-0-15-168550-9
Gold prospectors, gringo intruders and seedy adventurers murder indigenous peoples, slaughter endangered species and turn Ecuador's lush jungle into a wasteland in this short, poignant novel with a resounding environmental message. Living in a hut...
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Luis Sepulveda, Author, Margaret Sayers Perden, Translator, Chris Sheban, Illustrator , trans. from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden, illus. by Chris Sheban. Scholastic/Levine $15.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-439-40186-9
"Humans, unfortunately, are unpredictable. Often it's with the best intentions that they cause the greatest damage." So says the wise cat, Colonel, in Sepúlveda's charming tale of devotion, courage and the importance of...
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Luis Sepúlveda, trans. from the Spanish by Howard Curtis, Europa, $15 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-60945-002-1
Sepúlveda packs more than three decades of Chilean history into this lean and darkly humorous novel. Three aging revolutionaries—Cacho Salinas, Lolo Garmendia, and Lucho Arancibia—reunite to pull off one final, spectacular heist, gathering in a...
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Luis Sepulveda, Author, Suzanne Ruta, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $21 (224p) ISBN 978-0-15-100193-4
Exiled Chilean author Sepulveda has written an engrossing, thoughtful noir novel about the politics of exile and its effect on the human psyche. Everyone in this book is displaced: Germans in Chile, Chileans in Germany, even people in their own...
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