Full Circle: A South American Journey

by Luis Sepúlveda

Book Overview

Full Circle invites us to accompany Chilean writer Luis Sepulveda on "a journey without a fixed itinerary". Whatever his subject--brutalities suffered under Pinochet's dictatorship, sleepy tropical... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0864424655
• ISBN13: 9780864424655
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

wanderlust reactivated

a very honest and coolly written book. While the narrative appears disjointed at first, one realizes that if the author were to write all the details in chrono sequence, given that he has been travelling for years, it would have been several fat volumes. This is not srictly a travelogue in the sense of day 1 we did tis, day 2 that happened.. rather, its a collection of incidents and events that took place in the couirse of the author's travels, that illuminate life in the various places he has been.I feel like hitting the road again, with no fixed destination in mind, no final goal, timeless...

A very entertaining and well wriiten book.

Full Circle is a book that cannot be read only once. The stories become like old freinds and are joys to visit with again and again.

A book of the past, present and future

Full circle details the past and the ceratin present of sepulveda's life, his torture and exile from his country because of his belief and his travels through South America as he cannot return. The story begins and ends with his aim to try and get to the village of his grandfather's birth in Spain and to see if he has any surviving relatives. A book that touched me in a way no other book has ever done and none probably will, and belive me, for once that is no understatement.