The Secret History of Costaguana Paperback - 2012
by Juan Gabriel Vasquez; Anne McLean (Translator)
In the early 20th century, Joseph Conrad wrote his great novel "Nostromo," about a South American republic he named Costaguana. In "The Secret History of Costaguana," readers uncover the hidden source--and one of the great literary thefts.
Summary
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 detailfrom 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 clearNostromo 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 pastof both a country and a man.
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- Title The Secret History of Costaguana
- Author Juan Gabriel Vasquez; Anne McLean (Translator)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Riverhead Books
- Date 2012-08-07
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781594485824 / 1594485828
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.9 in (20.57 x 13.72 x 2.29 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
“Audacious…a potent mixture of history, fiction and literary gamesmanship.” — Los Angeles Times
“An exceptional new novel.” —The Wall Street Journal
“One of the most original new voices of Latin American literature."
“Remarkable . . . Immensely entertaining . . . The best work of literary fiction to come my way since 2005.”
“One hallmark of a gifted novelist is the ability to see the potential for compelling fiction in an incident, anecdote or scrap of history. . . . By that standard and several others, the career of Juan Gabriel Vásquez . . . is off to a notable start.”
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