The Imposter

By Javier Cercas

Details

Publisher: knopf
Publication Date: 2018 - 08 - 28
ISBN: 9781524732813
Themes: historical Fiction

Preface

Enric Marco was an elderly man in his nineties, living in Barcelona, a Holocaust survivor who gave hundreds of speeches, granted dozens of interviews, received important national honors, and moved government officials to tears. But in May 2005, Marco was exposed as a fraud: he was never in a Nazi concentration camp. The story was reported around the world, transforming him from hero to villain in the blink of an eye. Now, more than a decade later--in a hypnotic narrative that combines fiction and nonfiction, Javier Cercas sets out to unravel Marco's enigma.