From the author of "The Sound of Things Falling," a "brilliant
new novel" ("New York Times Book Review") and one of the most
buzzed about books of the year
"One of the most original new voices of Latin American
literature." -- Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for
Literature
"Unlike anything written by his Latin American contemporaries"
("The Financial Times") "The Informers" secured Juan Gabriel
Vasquez's place as one of the most original and exuberantly
talented novelist working today. Now he returns with an ingenious
new novel of historical invention.
On the day of Joseph Conrad's death in 1924, the Colombian-born
Jose 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.
As the destinies of real empires collide with the murky realities
of imagined ones, Vasquez 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.
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