The Secret History of Costaguana
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The Secret History of Costaguana by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
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 V squez'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 Jos 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, V squez 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.Juan Gabriel Vsquez's past works include The Sound of Things Falling, a national bestseller and winner of the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize, as well as the award-winning The Informers, The Hidden History of Costaguana, and the story collection Lovers on All Saints' Day. Vsquez's works have been translated into twenty-eight languages around the world. He presently resides in Bogot after spending sixteen years in France, Belgium, and Spain. Anne McLean translates novels, short tales, memoirs, and other works from Latin America and Spain. She has twice won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Premio Valle Incln, as well as the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for her work The Sound of Things Falling, which she co-wrote with Juan Gabriel Vsquez. She currently resides in Toronto.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781594485824 |
| ISBN 10 | 1594485828 |
| Title | The Secret History of Costaguana |
| Author | Juan Gabriel Vasquez |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2012-08-07 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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