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RIVERHEAD Trade Paperback August 2012<br />
the secret histOry<br />
Of cOstaguana<br />
Juan Gabriel Vásquez,<br />
translated by Anne McLean<br />
978-1-59448-582-4 • $16.00/NCR<br />
Trade Paperback<br />
320 pp./5 1/2” x 8 1/4”/Carton: 32/Fiction<br />
Rights: F25<br />
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc<br />
36 Soho Square<br />
London, W1d 3QY<br />
England<br />
Publishing History: Riverhead Hardcover<br />
978-1-59448-803-0 (6/9/11)<br />
Previous Book: The Informers 978-1-59448-467-4 (7/10)<br />
EAN: 9781594485824 51600<br />
On sale August 7, 2012<br />
suggested order<br />
Photo © Peter drubin<br />
Now in paperback—a bold, historical novel from<br />
“one of the most original new voices of Latin<br />
American literature” (Mario Vargas Llosa).<br />
From the acclaimed author of The Informers comes an “exceptional”<br />
(The Wall Street Journal) novel about reclaiming the past—of both<br />
a country and a man. On the day of Joseph Conrad’s death in 1924,<br />
Colombian-born writer José Altamirano begins to write and cannot stop.<br />
Many years before, he had confessed to Conrad his life’s every delicious<br />
detail—from his country’s heroic revolutions to his own darkest solitary<br />
moment. Those stolen reflections became Nostromo, a novel that<br />
solidified Conrad’s fame and created the fictional Costaguana. Now that<br />
Conrad is dead, Altamirano must write himself back into existence.<br />
Tragic and despairing, comic and insightful, The Secret History of<br />
Costaguana is a masterpiece of historical invention and secures Vásquez’s<br />
place as one of the most exuberantly talented novelists working today.<br />
“[A] cunning tribute to a classic, but it also stands on its own merits as<br />
a dense and involving story about men who are either manipulating<br />
history or finding themselves at the barrel-end of it.”<br />
—The Wall Street Journal<br />
“Intricately detailed, audacious...[a] potent mixture of history, fiction,<br />
and literary gamesmanship.” —The Los Angeles Times<br />
MARKETING<br />
• Print features and re<strong>view</strong>s<br />
• Online re<strong>view</strong>s and author inter<strong>view</strong>s<br />
• “New in Paperback” mentions<br />
SALES POINTS<br />
• Similar to Colm Tóibín’s The Master or T.C. Boyle’s The Women, Vásquez uses<br />
the real history of a prominent literary figure to weave a rich, enticing story<br />
about a dynamic historical period<br />
• The Informers (7/10) was a finalist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize,<br />
long-listed for the Warwick Prize for Writing, and has won several prizes and<br />
honors in Spain and Latin America<br />
ALSO AvAILAbLE<br />
The Informers 978-1-59448-467-4 @ $16.00/NCR<br />
Juan Gabriel Vásquez is a critically acclaimed, award-winning Colombian<br />
writer, whose work has been translated into fourteen languages. He is the author<br />
of The Informers and has written a biography of Joseph Conrad. Anne McLean’s<br />
translations have twice been awarded the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.<br />
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