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"A cunning tribute to a classic." —Wall Street Journal
"[A] post-modern literary revenge story.” —The New York Times
An ingenious novel of historical invention from the global literary star author of The Sound of Things Falling.
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.
- Juan Gabriel Vasquez - Author
- Anne McLean - Translator
Kindle Book
- Release date: June 9, 2011
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- ISBN: 9781101535240
- Release date: June 9, 2011
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- ISBN: 9781101535240
- File size: 283 KB
- Release date: June 9, 2011
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