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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Juan Gabriel Vásquez
• Con la collaborazione di: Anne McLean (Traduzione)
• Editore: Riverhead
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 07.08.2012
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi
• EAN: 9781594485824
• ISBN: 978-1-59448-582-4
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 14 x 20.8 x 2.2 cm
• Serie: Riverhead
• Categorie: FICTION / Historical; FICTION / Literary; Fiction - Historical