The Secret History of Costaguana - Juan Gabriel Vasquez - Books - Penguin Publishing Group - 9781594485824 - August 7, 2012
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Juan Gabriel Vasquez

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From the author of The Sound of Things Falling, a "brilliant new novel" (New York Times Book Review) and one of the most buzzed about books of the year!

"One of the most original new voices of Latin American literature." -- Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature


“Unlike anything written by his Latin American contemporaries? (The Financial Times) The Informers secured Juan Gabriel Vásquez?s place as one of the most original and exuberantly talented novelist working today. Now he returns with an ingenious new novel of historical invention.

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.


320 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released August 7, 2012
ISBN13 9781594485824
Publishers Penguin Publishing Group
Pages 320
Dimensions 148 × 212 × 23 mm   ·   272 g
Language English  

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