��nlike anything written by his Latin American contemporaries��(The Financial Times) The Informers secured Juan Gabriel V獺squez�� place as one of the most original and
exuberantly talented novelist working today. Now he returns with an ingenious new novel of historical invention.
On the day of Joseph Conrad's death in 1924, the Colombian-born Jos矇 Altamirano begins to write and cannot stop. Many years before, he confessed to Conrad his life's every delicious
detail��rom his country's heroic revolutions to his darkest solitary moments. Those intimate recollections became Nostromo, a novel that solidified Conrad�� fame and turned Altamirano��
reality into a work of fiction. Now Conrad is dead, but the slate is by no means clear��ostromo will live on and Altamirano must write himself back into existence.
As the destinies of real empires collide with the murky realities of imagined ones, V獺squez 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��f both a country and a man.
