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The Secret History of Costaguana

The Secret History of Costaguana( )
Author: Vásquez, Juan Gabriel
ISBN:978-1-59448-803-0
Publication Date:Jun 2011
Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group
Imprint:Riverhead Books
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $26.95
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:304
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / City Life
Fiction / Biographical
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.31 x 9.24 x 1.06 Inches
Book Weight:1.085 Pounds
Author Biography
Vásquez, Juan Gabriel (Author)
Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1973. He studied law at the University of Rosario and received a doctorate in Latin American literature at the Sorbonne. He is the author of The Informants (Los Informantes), The Secret History of Costaguana (Historia Secreta de Costaguana), and The Sound of Things Falling (El Ruido de las Cosas al Caer), which won International Dublin Literary Award in 2014.

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