Author: V?SQUEZ, JUAN GABRIEL
Title: The Secret History of Costaguana
Description: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, UK, 2010. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition. 9781408809877 320 pages. Available Now. Book Description: London, 1903. Joseph Conrad is struggling with his new novel ('I am placing it in South America in a Republic I call Costaguana'). Progress is slow and the great writer needs help from a native of the Caribbean coast of South America. Jos? Altamirano, Colombian at birth, who has just arrived in London, answers the great writer's advertisement and tells him his life story. Jos? has been witness to the most horrible things that a person or a country could suffer, and drags with him not just a guilty conscience but a story that has almost destroyed him.: But when Nostromo is published the following year Jos? is outraged by what he reads: 'You've eliminated me from my own life. You, Joseph Conrad, have robbed me.' I waved the Weekly in the air again, and then threw it down on his desk. 'Here,' I whispered, my back to the thief, 'I do not exist.': The Secret History of Costaguana, the second novel by Juan Gabriel V?squez to be published in English, is Jos? Altamirano's riposte to Joseph Conrad. It is a big novel, tragic and despairing, comic and insightful by turns, told by a bumptious narrator with a score to settle. It is Latin America's post-modern answer to Europe's modernist vision. It is a superb, joyful, thoughtful and rumbustious novel that will establish Juan Gabriel V?squez's reputation as one of the leading novelists of his generation. : Review: 'Splendid' (Daily Telegraph): 'Vivid, forceful, masterly' (Guardian): 'A humorous, picaresque novel of adventure and a knowing take on a family saga' (Guardian): 'Juan Gabriel V?squez is one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature.' (Mario Vargas Llosa) : Book Description: 'For anyone who has read the entire works of Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez and is in search of a new Colombian novelist, then Juan Gabriel V?squez ... is a thrilling new discovery' Colm T?ib?n Size: 12.9 x 1.9 x 19.8 cm. 320 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Paperback; ISBN: 1408809877. ISBN/EAN: 9781408809877. Inventory No: F240-1303.

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