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The Impostor

Javier Cercas

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The Impostor was longlisted for the Man Booker International 2018. A true story that is packed with fiction - fiction created by its main character, Enric Marco. But who is Enric Marco? A veteran of the Spanish Civil War, a fighter against fascism, an impassioned campaigner for justice, and a survivor of the Nazi death camps? Or, is he simply an old man with delusions of grandeur, a charlatan who fabricated his heroic war record, who was never a prisoner in the Third Reich and never opposed Franco; a charming, beguiling and compulsive liar who refashioned himself as a defender of liberty and who was unmasked in 2005 at the height of his influence and renown? In this extraordinary novel - part narrative, part history, part essay, part biography, part autobiography - Javier Cercas unravels the enigma of the man and delves with passion and honesty into the most ambiguous aspects of what makes us human - our infinite capacity for self-deception, our need for conformity, our thirst for affection and our conflicting needs for fiction and for truth.

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Publisher
MacLehose Press
Year
2017
ISBN-13
9780857056498
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Identity and deceptionMemory and historical truthSpanish Civil War and Holocaust legacy

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