Book description
'There is something in a treasure that fastens upon a man's mind.
He will pray and blaspheme and still persevere, and will curse the
day he ever heard of it, and will let his last hour come upon him
unawares, still believing that he missed it only by a foot. He will
see it every time he closes his eyes. He will never forget it till
he is dead - and even then ...'
In the exotic South American republic of Costaguana, the San Tom
silver mine provides opportunities for untold wealth and power. Yet
amid the turbulence and brutality of Latin American politics, everyone
associated with it - from the compromised English mine-owner Gould to
the grasping businessman Holroyd, from the revolutionary Montero to
the loyal and seemingly incorruptible worker Nostromo - becomes
somehow irrevocably tainted. Nostromo is a grandiose epic,
startlingly modern in its technique and political sophistication - and
a masterpiece of tension, adventure and mystery.
The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in
English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the
beginning of the First World War.
