A Thousand Deaths Plus One
Sergio Ramirez
(Author)
Leland H. Chambers
(Translator)
Description
In 1987, while on a state visit to Warsaw, the author happened upon an exhibition of remarkable works by a hitherto unknown Nicaraguan photographer, Juan Castelln, who plied his craft in Europe between roughly 1880 and 1940. This improbable discovery launches Ramirez on a consuming quest to reveal the forgotten artist's identity -- an obsession that eventually takes him from Nicaragua to Vienna to Mallorca, and leads him to sift through the evidentiary remains of a raffish entourage of European and Latin American madmen, nobles, adventurers, and poets. Meanwhile, in alternating chapters, Castelln tells his own side of the story, from his fantastic conception in Nicaragua, to an education in France courtesy of Napoleon III, to nights of debauchery in the company of his compatriot-in-exile Rubn Daro, to a final and unexpected residence in a Nazi concentration camp. A Thousand Deaths Plus One is a coruscating novel that recapitulates the strange history of Nicaragua.
Product Details
Price
$25.00
$23.25
Publisher
McPherson
Publish Date
April 01, 2009
Pages
295
Dimensions
5.6 X 1.0 X 8.5 inches | 1.1 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780929701875
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Leland H. Chambers is emeritus professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Denver.