A Thousand Deaths Plus One

by Sergio Ramírez

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0929701879
• ISBN13: 9780929701875
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: McPherson
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.5"