The Secret History of Costaguana

"A potent mixture of history, fiction and literary gamesmanship." —Los Angeles Times
"A cunning tribute to a classic." —Wall Street Journal
"[A] post-modern literary revenge story.” —The New York Times

An ingenious novel of historical invention from the global literary star author of The Sound of Things Falling.

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 de...