The Secret History of Costaguana

"A potent mixture of history, fiction and literary gamesmanship." "A cunning tribute to a classic." "[A] post-modern literary revenge story.” An ingenious novel of historical invention from the global literary star author of 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.

Product details

• Authors: Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Juan Gabriel Vásquez
• Assisted by: Anne McLean (Translation)
• Publisher: Riverhead
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.08.2012
• EAN: 9781594485824
• ISBN: 978-1-59448-582-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 208 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Riverhead
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature