{"product_id":"the-secret-history-of-costaguana-juan-gabriel-vasquez-9781594485824","title":"The Secret History of Costaguana","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A potent mixture of history, fiction and literary gamesmanship.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A cunning tribute to a classic.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] post-modern literary revenge story.\"\u003ci\u003e --\u003c\/i\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn ingenious novel of historical invention from the global literary star author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Things Falling\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Juan Gabriel Vasquez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1594485828\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781594485824\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/07\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.90d","brand":"Juan Gabriel Vasquez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43938513256703,"sku":"9781594485824","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_ae9221de-5e9c-47f6-9e16-e6acb2b68491.jpg?v=1681436127","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-secret-history-of-costaguana-juan-gabriel-vasquez-9781594485824","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}