The secret story of Kostaguana. Vasquez H.G.

A brilliant historical and postmodern novel from the author of the book “The noise of falling things”. Many years ago, a native of Colombia Jose Altamyano told the writer Joseph Conrad the story of his life, and she under the pen of the writer turned into fiction, the novel “Nostromo”. Torn by the political struggle of Colombia became a half -mythical Kostaguana in it. But now the Colombian is eager to record his burning confession and restore the true course of events - a storm of revolutions, the search for his father, the epic of the construction of the Panama Canal, the circumstances of unexpected love and flight to Europe.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez with an ingenuity worthy of Markes's heir , Borges and Cortasara, plays with the reader, offering to see a different text, nourished by the blood of reality behind the text of the classic, but in fact it is also uncompromisingly mixing the fate of empires, evidence of participants in historical events and magnificent fruits of writing.