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The Secret History of Costaguana
de Vasquez, Juan Gabriel
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Bien/Good
- ISBN 10
- 1408800187
- ISBN 13
- 9781408800188
- Librería
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Didcot, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2010. Hardcover in good condition. Jacket is marked, lightly scored and edge worn. Hardcover spine ends are lightly worn. Page block is lightly marked. A few pages are dog eared. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. Binding is sound. HCW. Hardcover. Good/Good. Used.
Sinopsis
A bold historical novel from "one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature" (Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature). In the early twentieth century, a struggling Joseph Conrad wrote his great novel Nostromo, about a South American republic he named Costaguana. It was inspired by the geography and history of Colombia, where Conrad spent only a few days. But in Juan Gabriel Vásquez's novel The Secret History of Costaguana, we uncover the hidden source- and one of the great literary thefts. 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. Conrad stole them all. Now Conrad is dead, but the slate is by no means clear- Nostromo will live on and Altamirano must write himself back into existence. 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. Tragic and despairing, comic and insightful, The Secret History of Costaguana is a masterpiece of historical invention. It will secure Juan Gabriel Vásquez's place among the most original and exuberantly talented novelists working today.
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- PsychoBabel & Skoob Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
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- Título
- The Secret History of Costaguana
- Autor
- Vasquez, Juan Gabriel
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 1408800187
- ISBN 13
- 9781408800188
- Editorial
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 2010
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