This is the Bamboleo Bookstore, the only one registered in the Colombian Book Chamber throughout the Amazon region. He emerged at the initiative of Jorge Humberto Correa, a Bogota educator who arrived in the region 13 years ago and with his partner he decided in 2023 to put a bookstore in the middle of a sauce bar.
The Bamboleo bookstore is part of the Stand Filbo Emprende, an initiative of the book of trade in the book that seeks to promote and strengthen ventures from the book chain. This year brings together five bookstores and five peripheral publishers of cities such as Soacha, Quibdó, Apartadó and Guaviare.
“More than 60% of the libraries are in Bogotá and in very specific areas. Reading in the country is very centralized. We keep the bookstore, we hope that new generations will return to the role. Our goal is not economical, it is not only to sell books, but we hope that one day it can be self -sustainable,” says Correa, who also leads the Guavarí writers workshop.
-“Hermits and males,” seven Amazonian stories. In this book fair, Correa also presented the second edition of his book “Hermit and males.” It tells the history of the “male males”, a term that refers to men living in solitude and becomes characters from the urban, rural and jungle landscape of the region. It has a digital multimedia that maps the territories in which the stories are framed.
“The Guaviare is mired in stereotypes. The news that comes out are not false, but they are incomplete. The conflict is now intensified, but it has a very large trogine of tourism, a beautiful nature and the road is very sure. People are going to Guaviare,” he continues.
The book fair ends this Sunday. The bamboleo bookstore and the other nine editorial initiatives are in Pavilion 3, Stand 321, on the first floor. In San José, the bookstore is in race 22 with 10th Street, in front of Coliseo La Esperanza, inside the Melodías bar.
