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The Secret History of Costaguana
By Vásquez, Juan Gabriel
- ISBN
- 978-1-59448-803-0
- Publisher
- Riverhead: Penguin Group (USA)
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Library Journal
Reviewed on May 15, 2011
For readers familiar with Joseph Conrad, Costaguana will ring a bell: it's the fictitious setting of his novel Nostromo. Following the historical pattern of Vásquez's earlier The Informers, this novel covers about 100 years of Colombian history (a veiled homage to Gabriel García Márquez?), from the birth of the revolutionary Miguel Altamirano in 1820 to Conrad's death in 1924. Miguel's illegitimate son José, the narrator of this story,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
