The secret history of Costaguana
By: Juan Gabriel Vasquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
Contributors: McLean, Anne, 1962-
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9781594488030
Subjects: Authorship; English Novelists; Colombians; Fiction
Work titles: Historia secreta de Costaguana
Description: 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.