The Impostor

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018 A TRUE STORY THAT IS PACKED WITH FICTION - FICTION CREATED BY ITS MAIN CHARACTER, ENRIC MARCO But who is Enric Marco? A veteran of the Spanish Civil War, a fighter against fascism, an impassioned campaigner for justice, and a survivor of the Nazi death camps? Or, is he simply an old man with delusions of grandeur, a charlatan who fabricated his heroic war record, who was never a prisoner in the Third Reich and never opposed Franco; a charming, beguiling and compulsive liar who refashioned himself as a defender of liberty and who was unmasked in 2005 at the height of his influence and renown? In this extraordinary novel - part narrative, part history, part essay, part biography, part autobiography - Javier Cercas unravels the enigma of the man and delves with passion and honesty into the most ambiguous aspects of what makes us human - our infinite capacity for self-deception, our need for conformity, our thirst for affection and our conflicting needs for fiction and for truth. Translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Javier Cercas
• Mitarbeit: Frank Wynne (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Quercus Publishing
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9780857056504
• ISBN: 978-0-85705-650-4
• Seiten: 432
• Abmessung: 151 mm x 214 mm x 37 mm
• Serien: MacLehose Press Editions; MacLehose Press Editions
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; FICTION / Historical / General, Spain, Fiction in translation, The Holocaust, TRUE CRIME / Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions, Hoaxes & deceptions, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, HISTORY / Europe / Spain