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The Secret History of Costaguana

14.99 €
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The Secret History of Costaguana
14.99 €
A brilliant historical and postmodern novel from the author of The Noise of Falling Things. Years ago, Colombian-born Jose Altamirano told writer Joseph Conrad the story of his life, and it was turned into fiction under the writer's pen, the novel Nostromo. Torn by political struggle Colombia became in it a semi-mythical Costaguana. But now the Colombian is eager to record his own burning confession and restore the true course of events - the storms of revolutions, the search for his father, the epic of the construction of the Panama Canal, the circumstances of unexpected love and escape to Europe ...
Juan Gabriel Vázquez plays with the ingenuity worthy of the heir to Marquez, Borges and Cortázar, playing with the reader, suggesting that behind the text of a classic text another text, saturated with the blood of reality, but in fact also uncompromisingly mixing the fate of empires, testimonies of participants in historical events and the magnificent fruits of the writer's imagination.
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