The Impostor
A True Story
- Hardcover
432 pages
- Release Date
13 November 2017
Summary
An old man from Barcelona who claims to be a Nazi concentration camp survivor rises to be president of Spain’s leading Holocaust survivor movement, the Friends of Mauthausen. By the time he is unmasked in Austria in 2005 on the eve of the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the camp, he has become a civic hero, speaking at hundreds of conferences, granting dozens of interviews, receiving state honours, publishing a successful memoir and even moving Spanish congressmen to tears at a me…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857056504 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0857056506 |
| Author: | Javier Cercas, Frank Wynne |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 13 November 2017 |
| Weight: | 568g |
| Dimensions: | 214mm x 151mm x 37mm |
| Series: | MacLehose Press Editions |
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Critics Review
Without doubt, his best novel. - ABC.Swift and captivating prose, yet calibrated to the millimetre and’as obsessively rhythmical as ravel’s Bolero. - El Pais.
Without doubt, his best novel. - ABC.
Swift and captivating prose, yet calibrated to the millimetre and?as obsessively rhythmical as ravel’s Bolero. - El Pais.About The Author
Javier Cercas
Javier Cercas was born in 1962. He is a novelist, short-story writer and columnist, whose books include Soldiers of Salamis (which sold more than a million copies worldwide, won six literary awards in Spain and was filmed by David Trueba), The Tenant and The Motive, The Speed of Light and The Anatomy of a Moment. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in Barcelona.
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