{"product_id":"impostor-the-4","title":"Impostor, The","description":"LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA TRUE STORY THAT IS PACKED WITH FICTION - FICTION CREATED BY ITS MAIN CHARACTER, ENRIC MARCO\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne","brand":"Quercus Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57943075488079,"sku":"9780857056528","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/impostor-the-4","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}