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Condition: Like new: A book that looks new but has been read. Cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket ... Like new: A book that looks new but has been read. Cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket (if applicable) is included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab

Publication Year: 2011

Narrative Type: Fiction

ISBN: 9781408809877

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Book Title: The Secret History of Costaguana

Item Height: 198mm

Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Topic: Books

Item Width: 129mm

Item Weight: 261g

Number of Pages: 320 Pages

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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. Jose Altamirano, Colombian at birth, who has just arrived in London, answers the great writer's advertisement and tells him his life story. Jose 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 Jose 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 Vasquez to be published in English, is Jose 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 Vasquez's reputation as one of the leading novelists of his generation.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

ISBN-13

9781408809877

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104100211

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Book Title

The Secret History of Costaguana

Author

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Topic

Books

Publication Year

2011

Number of Pages

320 Pages

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Item Height

198mm

Item Width

129mm

Item Weight

261g

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Juan Gabriel Vasquez

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United Kingdom

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