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008			111115s2009 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2009002415
020			_a9780929701875
050	0	0	_aPQ7519.2.R25 _bM5513 2009
082	0	0	_aLAS FIC RAM
100	1		_aRamirez, Sergio _d, 1942-
240	1	0	_aMil y una muertes _l. English
245	1	2	_aA thousand deaths plus one _b: a novel _c/ by Sergio Ramírez ; translated from the Spanish by Leland H. Chambers
260			_aKingston, N.Y. _b: McPherson & Co. _c, c2009.
300			_a295 p. _c; 23 cm.
520			_aThe narrative of a search for the lost history of an obscure Nicaraguan photographer named Juan Castellón. In 1987, the author/narrator, while on an state visit to Poland, happened upon an exhibition of hitherto unknown photographs by Castellón, who had pursued a career in Europe between roughly 1870 and 1940. The discovery initiates an obsessive quest to recover the lost artist's history¿a quest that eventually carries the author from Vienna to Mallorca with points in between as he sifts through a trove of documentary evidence concerning a raffish cast of European and Central American characters. In alternating chapters Castellón offers his own story, from his bizarre conception in Nicaragua, to his education in France, to his nights of serious drinking with Rubén Darío, and lastly to a compromised finale in Nazi Germany. The result is a novel that may be said to personify the tragi-comic history of Nicaragua.
650		4	_aPhotographers _v--Fiction
651		0	_aNicaragua
700	1		_aChambers, Leland H. _d, 1928-
942			_cLAS
999			_c233455 _d233455