Second session of "Llegeix i gaudeix" book club at Biblioteca Marià Villangómez

The Office of Culture of the Consell de Formentera is pleased to report that tomorrow, Tuesday 28 March at 7.00pm, Lluís Ferrer will lead the second session of the "Read and Revel" (Llegeix i gaudeix) book club in the children's room of Marià Villangómez Library.

Participants will discuss Luis Sepúlveda's The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (El viejo que leía novelas de amor). The author was born in Chile in 1949 and was a globetrotter whose travels had taken him to the Amazon jungle and the Saharawi desert. In 1993, Tusquets Editores published The Old Man..., a gripping story set in El Idilio, a village in the Amazon region populated by the Shuar Indians. The protagonist, Antonio José Bolívar Proaño, lived with the Shuars and learned about the jungle and the laws that govern it. Sepúlveda employs crystal-clear prose to tell this poignant story of human greed and barbarism.

Tuesday 18 April at 7.00pm in the children's room of the Marià Villangómez Library, participants in the third session of the book club will reflect Kent Haruf's Our Souls in the Night, which is available at the library.

27 March 2023
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Consell de Formentera