The story that touched Jaime Bayly in Ecuador was told by a man who stopped begging his girlfriend to have an abortion after reading a novel by a Peruvian writer.

Last Saturday, September 23. Jaime Bayly has signed more than 500 books on the day of his conference ‘Geniuses’, d International Book Fair in Guayaquil; and When he opened the forum to receive questions, one thing touched his heart and almost made him cry, as he said in a video posted on social networks.

“The man stood up and said to me: ’13 years ago my girlfriend got pregnant and I didn’t want to be a father and asked her to have an abortion. She did not want to. And one of his novels under the title A hurricane is named after you. And reading it I understood You also went through a similar situation, you left your girlfriend pregnant and you didn’t want to be a father. – They thought about an abortion, in the end they didn’t and their daughter Camila was born.

So Bayly literally summed up the reader’s story, which ended with an explanation of that He decided to accept paternity, and with his partner he had a child whom he named Camila, who is now 13 years old.

“I was genuinely touched. ‘Thanks to that novel, we had a daughter.’ That was wonderful. An unforgettable moment, because as I told you, it shows books are not completely useless, that novels can touch, change, improve people’s lives. A lost man finds light in art that helps him get out of a crisis or get to know himself better.”

Bayly stated that he was very surprised by the “overwhelming affection” of the Ecuadorian readers, and estimated that he spent at least five hours tending to them, since his intervention at FIL began at 6:00 p.m. and left after 11:00 p.m. . He didn’t just sign A geniusbut novels from previous years, such as Lame and crazy, Rain and weather, Tomorrow you will die“and very ancient specimens Don’t tell anyone and The night is a virgin. They have a friendly relationship with me, which goes beyond reading.”

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The American of Peruvian origin also recorded moments in which he managed to make the audience laugh: when he introduced the man who brought him a glass of water as ‘his boyfriend’, when he spoke about ‘Luisa González, de Correa’, and when he mentioned it in comparison with businessman Álvaro Nobo, his son, a presidential candidate Daniel Noboa is proof that the species has “evolved for the better”.

He admitted that he does not consider himself an intellectual or an academic and that His conversations are very improvised, “with consequent risks.” He assured that he trusted his memory, his eloquence and that if he made a fool of himself, nothing would happen.

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“I was there, talking passionately about art, about literature, about Vargas Llosa, about García Márquez, about the blow (which according to his novel Los Genios, the latter delivered to the former), about how I researched the novel, about how I risked so much to publish it, and I thought, these people see this preacher, this speaker, this charlatan…” but what worried him the most, he stated, was that the zipper on his pants was open without him realizing it . (AND)