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The impostor : a true story / by Javier Cercas ; translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne.

by Cercas, Javier, 1962-

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Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.

Marco, Enric, 1921-

Holocaust survivor imposters.

Impostors and imposture -- Spain.

9781524732813 (hc.)

Impostor. English English

364 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

"This is a Borzoi book."

Includes bibliographical references.

Offers a fictional account of the life of Enric Marco, who was exposed as a fraud after receiving innumerable honors as an inspirational speaker and Holocaust survivor.

"Who is Enric Marco? 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 even 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, detective story and war story, biography and autobiography--Javier Cercas sets out to unravel Marco's enigma. With both profound compassion and lacerating honesty, Cercas takes the reader on a journey not only into one man's gigantic lie, but also--through its exploration of our infinite capacity for self-deception, our opposing needs for fantasy and reality, our appetite for affection--into the deepest, most flawed."--From publisher.

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