Michael Eaude
Liar, Liar
The Impostor
By Javier Cercas (Translated by Frank Wynne)
MacLehose Press 426pp £20 order from our bookshop
Javier Cercas is one of Europe’s most serious and attractive writers. Soldiers of Salamis, his breakthrough novel (published in English in 2003), dealt with an incident of mercy in the Spanish Civil War, The Speed of Light (2006) with the empty heart of a Vietnam War veteran, and Outlaws (2014) with a gang of thieves in Girona. These fine, diverse novels have in common Cercas’s luminous style, reminiscent at times of F Scott Fitzgerald; in all of them too, Cercas offers a subtle exploration of the nature of heroism.
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