THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
English translation copyright © 2017 by Frank Wynne
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.
Originally published in Spain as El impostor by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S. A. U., in 2014. Copyright © 2014 by Javier Cercas.
This translation originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by MacLehose Press, an imprint of Quercus Publishing Ltd., a Hachette UK company, London, in 2017.
Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Oxford University Press for permission to reprint an excerpt of “Che Fece…II Gran Rifiuto” from C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems, new translation by Evangelos Sachperoglou, edited by Anthony Hirst and Peter Mackridge (OWC, 2008). Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Cercas, Javier, [date] author. | Wynne, Frank, translator.
Title: The impostor : a true story / by Javier Cercas ; translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne.
Other titles: Impostor. English
Description: First edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. | “This is a Borzoi book” | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017044942 (print) | LCCN 2017045503 (ebook) | ISBN 9781524732820 (ebook) | ISBN 9781524732813 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Marco, Enric, 1921—Fiction. | Impostors and imposture—Spain—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PQ6653.E62 (ebook) | LCC PQ6653.E62 14713 2018 (print) | DDC 863/.64—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017044942
Ebook ISBN 9781524732820
Cover photograph of Enric Marco by Lluis Gene/AFP/Getty Images
Cover design by Chip Kidd
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