The Impostor

@2@@20@LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018@21@@3@@2@@20@A TRUE STORY THAT IS PACKED WITH FICTION - FICTION CREATED BY ITS MAIN CHARACTER, ENRIC MARCO@21@@3@@2@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?@3@@2@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.@3@@2@@20@Translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne@21@@3@

Product details

• Authors: Javier Cercas, Cercas Javier
• Assisted by: Frank Wynne (Translation), Wynne Frank (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9780857056528
• ISBN: 978-0-85705-652-8
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 26 mm
• Series: MacLehose Press Editions; MacLehose Press Editions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Spain, Fiction in translation, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, The Holocaust, Far-right political ideologies and movements, TRUE CRIME / Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions, Hoaxes & deceptions, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, HISTORY / Europe / Spain