Book Review: Juan Gabriel Vásquez's "The Secret History of Costagana" - By Natasha Wimmer (The New York Times)

The best lines in The Secret History of Costaguana were written by Joseph Conrad. Harsh, maybe, but such is the treatment that its Colombian author, Juan Gabriel Vásquez (“The Informers”), invites — with crafty masochism — in this postmodern literary revenge story ... read more