Set in the fictional South American country of Costaguana, Nostromo explores the volatile politics and crippling greed surrounding the San TomĂ© silver mine. The story of power, love, revolutions, loyalty and reward is told with richly evocative description and brilliantly realised characters. But Nostromo is more than an adventure story; it is also a profoundly dark moral fable. Its language is as compellingly resonant as the sea itself; the characters absorbing and complex. It was Conradâs masterwork, a forerunner of Modernism, and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.