The Secret History of Costaguana
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A brilliant historical and postmodernist novel by the author of the book 'The Sound of Things Falling'. Many years ago, Colombian native Jose Altamirano told writer Joseph Conrad the story of his life, which under the writer's pen turned into fiction, the novel 'Nostromo'. Torn apart by political struggles, Colombia became the semi-mythical Costaguana in it. But now the Colombian desires to write his own burning confession and reconstruct the true course of events - the storms of revolutions, the search for his father, the epic of building the Panama Canal, the circumstances of unexpected love, and fleeing to Europe...
Juan Gabriel Vásquez, with inventiveness worthy of the heirs of Marquez, Borges, and Cortazar, plays with the reader, offering to see beyond the classic text another text, steeped in the blood of reality, but in fact also uncompromisingly mixing the fates of empires, testimonies of historical events participants, and the magnificent fruits of the writer's imagination.
'A powerful combination of history, literature, and playing with the reader'.
Los Angeles Times
'An extensive fresco: the chaos of history and the odyssey of solitude'.
Le Figaro
'Vásquez is one of the most brilliant Latin American writers of his generation'.
Le Monde
Juan Gabriel Vásquez, with inventiveness worthy of the heirs of Marquez, Borges, and Cortazar, plays with the reader, offering to see beyond the classic text another text, steeped in the blood of reality, but in fact also uncompromisingly mixing the fates of empires, testimonies of historical events participants, and the magnificent fruits of the writer's imagination.
'A powerful combination of history, literature, and playing with the reader'.
Los Angeles Times
'An extensive fresco: the chaos of history and the odyssey of solitude'.
Le Figaro
'Vásquez is one of the most brilliant Latin American writers of his generation'.
Le Monde
Author:
Author:Vaskes Juan Gabriel
Cover:
Cover:hardcover
Category:
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Fiction
Dimensions:
Dimensions:20.8x13x3.5 cm
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-907428-98-0
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