The secret history of Costaguana
/ Juan Gabriel Vasquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
- New York : Riverhead Books , 2011.
- 283 p. ; 24 cm.
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.