Cover of The secret history of Costaguana

Book 2011

The secret history of Costaguana

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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Language
English
Published
2011
  • Authorship
  • English Novelists
  • Colombians
  • Fiction
  • Fiction, historical, general
  • Authors, fiction
  • London (england), fiction
  • Fiction, biographical

A tale inspired by Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo" follows the story of Colombian-born José Altamirano, who reveals his integral role in the classic's writing and who pens his own version of events against a backdrop of a flourishing twentieth-century London and lawless Panama.