JUAN GABRIEL VASQUEZ
u003cbu003e"A potent mixture of history, fiction and literary gamesmanship." u003cbu003eu003ciu003eu003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003ciu003eLos Angeles Timesu003c/iu003eu003cbru003e"A cunning tribute to a classic." u003cbu003eu003ciu003eu003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003ciu003eWall Street Journalu003c/iu003eu003cbru003e"[A] post-modern literary revenge story.u003ciu003e u003c/iu003eThe New York Timesu003cbru003eu003cbru003eAn ingenious novel of historical invention from the global literary star author of u003ciu003eThe Sound of Things Fallingu003c/iu003e.u003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003e 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 detailfrom his country's heroic revolutions to his darkest solitary moments. Those intimate recollections became Nostromo, a novel that solidified Conrads fame and turned Altamiranos reality into a work of fiction. Now Conrad is dead, but the slate is by no means clearNostromo will live on and Altamirano must write himself back into existence.u003cbru003eu003cbru003e 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 pastof both a country and a man.
