{"product_id":"9781594485824","title":"The Secret History of Costaguana","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A potent mixture of history, fiction and literary gamesmanship.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A cunning tribute to a classic.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] post-modern literary revenge story.”\u003ci\u003e —\u003c\/i\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn ingenious novel of historical invention from the global literary star author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Things Falling\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 past—of both a country and a man.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43005069590589,"sku":"9781594485824","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781594485824_p0.jpg?v=1771598307","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781594485824","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}