# The Impostor

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- Authors: [Javier Cercas](https://www.bookquiver.com/javier-cercas)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2017-11-02

## Description

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018 A TRUE STORY THAT IS PACKED WITH FICTION - FICTION CREATED BY ITS MAIN CHARACTER, ENRIC MARCO But 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? In 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. Translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne

## Editions

### The Impostor

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-05-2543-423-8
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2019-07-02
- Language: en_US

### The Impostor

- Publisher: maclehose_press
- ISBN: 978-08-5705-652-8
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2018-08-09
- Language: en_GB

### The Impostor

- Publisher: maclehose_press
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-08-5705-649-8
- Published: 2017-11-02
- Language: en_GB

### The Impostor

- Publisher: maclehose_press
- ISBN: 978-08-5705-650-4
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2017-11-02
- Language: en_GB