The Secret History of Costaguana - Softcover

Vsquez, Juan Gabriel

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9781408809877: The Secret History of Costaguana

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ISBN 10: 1408809877 ISBN 13: 9781408809877

Publisher: Bloomsbury UK, 2011

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Joseph Conrad is struggling with his new novel. He needs help from a native of the Caribbean coast of South America. Jose Altamirano, just arrived in London, answers the writer's advert and tells him his life story. Jose has been witness to the most horrible things that a person or country could suffer.

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About the Author:

Juan Gabriel Vasquez was born in Bogota in 1973. He studied Latin American literature at the Sorbonne between 1996 and 1998, and now lives in Barcelona. His stories have appeared in anthologies in Germany, France, Spain and Colombia, and he has translated works by E. M. Forster and Victor Hugo, amongst others, into Spanish. He was recently nominated as one of the Bogota 39, South America's most promising writers of the new generation. His highly praised novel The Informers, the first of his books to be translated into English, has been published in eight languages worldwide. Anne McLean has twice won the Independent Prize for Foreign Fiction: for Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas in 2004 (which also won her the Valle Inclan Award) and for The Armies by Evelio Rosero in 2009.

Review:

`Splendid' * Daily Telegraph * 'Vivid, forceful, masterly' * Guardian * 'A humorous, picaresque novel of adventure and a knowing take on a family saga' * Guardian * `Juan Gabriel Vasquez is one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature.' * Mario Vargas Llosa *

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