The Secret History of Costaguana - Paperback
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Anne McLeanAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2012-08-07Pages:320
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Riverhead BooksISBN-13:9781594485824ISBN-10:1594485828UPC:9781594485824Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, LiterarySize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6Product ID:SCDNVASGE9
"A potent mixture of history, fiction and literary gamesmanship." --Los Angeles Times
"A cunning tribute to a classic." --Wall Street Journal
"[A] post-modern literary revenge story." --The New York Times An ingenious novel of historical invention from the global literary star author of The Sound of Things Falling. On the day of Joseph Conrad's death in 1924, the Colombian-born José Altamirano begins to write and cannot stop. Many years before, he confessed to Conrad his life's every delicious detail--from his country's heroic revolutions to his darkest solitary moments. Those intimate recollections became Nostromo, a novel that solidified Conrad's fame and turned Altamirano's reality into a work of fiction. Now Conrad is dead, but the slate is by no means clear--Nostromo will live on and Altamirano must write himself back into existence. As the destinies of real empires collide with the murky realities of imagined ones, Vásquez takes us from a flourishing twentieth-century London to the lawless fury of a blooming Panama and back in a labyrinthine quest to reclaim the past--of both a country and a man.
"A cunning tribute to a classic." --Wall Street Journal
"[A] post-modern literary revenge story." --The New York Times An ingenious novel of historical invention from the global literary star author of The Sound of Things Falling. On the day of Joseph Conrad's death in 1924, the Colombian-born José Altamirano begins to write and cannot stop. Many years before, he confessed to Conrad his life's every delicious detail--from his country's heroic revolutions to his darkest solitary moments. Those intimate recollections became Nostromo, a novel that solidified Conrad's fame and turned Altamirano's reality into a work of fiction. Now Conrad is dead, but the slate is by no means clear--Nostromo will live on and Altamirano must write himself back into existence. As the destinies of real empires collide with the murky realities of imagined ones, Vásquez takes us from a flourishing twentieth-century London to the lawless fury of a blooming Panama and back in a labyrinthine quest to reclaim the past--of both a country and a man.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Riverhead BooksISBN-13:9781594485824ISBN-10:1594485828UPC:9781594485824Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, LiterarySize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6Product ID:SCDNVASGE9
Juan Gabriel V?squez's previous books include the Dublin Literary Award winner and national bestseller, The Sound of Things Falling, as well as the International Booker finalist The Shape of the Ruins, the award-winning novels The Informers, The Secret History of Costaguana, and the story collections Songs for the Flames and Lovers on All Saints' Day. V?squez's novels have been published in twenty-eight languages worldwide. After sixteen years in France, Belgium, and Spain, he now lives in Bogot?. Anne McLean translates Latin American and Spanish novels, short stories, memoirs, and other writings. She has twice won both the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Premio Valle Incl?n, and received the Dublin Literary Award with Juan Gabriel V?squez for his novel The Sound of Things Falling. She lives in Toronto.
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