El imitador de Dios

Vieytes, a mysterious man with great sway over those who know him, returns to his native town of Providencia after years away. His plan, which he calls The Work and mockingly describes as community theatre, is to have the whole town act out a play with everyone in roles different from their usual ones and the town itself as the stage. No one but Vieytes knows what the whole is or what it is for, not even Gauna, a secondary-school friend he summons after more than thirty years to record the performance in a diary. As Gauna probes the coded messages of his old classmate, the day of the performance arrives, with Vieytes pulling the strings like a self-satisfied god, until something unforeseen scatters everyone.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

155 pages in the original

First published

2011 by Alfaguara

Author's age

51 when first published

ISBN

9789870421764 (original)