The Impostor: A True Story

by Javier Cercas

Book Overview

Nominated for the Man Booker International Prize

For decades, Enric Marco was revered as a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, a crusader for justice, and a Holocaust survivor. But in May 2005, at the height of his renown, he was exposed as a fraud: Marco was never in a Nazi concentration camp. And perhaps the rest of his past was fabricated, too, a combination of his delusions of grandeur and his compulsive lying. In this hypnotic narrative,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1524732818
• ISBN13: 9781524732813
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.3"