{"product_id":"the-secret-history-of-costaguana-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJuan Gabriel V?squez\u003c\/b\u003e's previous books include the Dublin Literary Award winner and national bestseller, \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Things Falling\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the International Booker finalist \u003ci\u003eThe Shape of the Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e, the award-winning novels \u003ci\u003eThe Informers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Secret History of Costaguana\u003c\/i\u003e, and the story collections \u003ci\u003eSongs for the Flames\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLovers on All Saints' Day\u003c\/i\u003e. V?squez's novels have been published in twenty-eight languages worldwide. After sixteen years in France, Belgium, and Spain, he now lives in Bogot?. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eAnne McLean\u003c\/b\u003e translates Latin American and Spanish novels, short stories, memoirs, and other writings. She has twice won both the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Premio Valle Incl?n, and received the Dublin Literary Award with Juan Gabriel V?squez for his novel The Sound of Things Falling. She lives in Toronto.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50855882719506,"sku":"9781594485824","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_57857a04-035c-4daa-8731-20fcae3d2256.jpg?v=1737487353","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-secret-history-of-costaguana-9781594485824","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}