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In her first novel since Insurrecto, Gina Apostol assembles a vision of Philippine history from the 19th century to present day in the fragmented story of the Delgados, a family surviving across generations of colonization, catastrophe, and war.Rosario, a Filipina novelist in New York City, has just learned of her mother’s death in the Philippines. Instead of rushing home, she puts off her return by embarking on a remote investigation into her...

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Gina Apostol's elliptical, incandescent new novel pieces together a century and a half of Philippine history through the story of a single family over generations of colonization, war and catastrophe.Rosario Delgado, a Filipina novelist in New York City, learns of the death of her mother in the Philippines, but puts off her return to the country by burying herself in an investigation her family's history-and her mother's supposed inheritance, ...

Moving, sexy, and archly funny, Gina Apostol's Philippine National Book Award-winning Bibliolepsy is a love letter to the written word and a brilliantly unorthodox look at the rebellion that brought down a dictatorship Gina Apostol's debut novel, available for the first time in the US, tells of a young woman caught between a lifelong desire to escape into books and a real-world revolution. It is the mid-eighties, two decades into the kleptocra...

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Moving, sexy, and archly funny, Gina Apostol's Philippine National Book Award-winning Bibliolepsy is a love letter to the written word and a brilliantly unorthodox look at the rebellion that brought down a dictatorship Gina Apostol's debut novel, available for the first time in the US, tells of a young woman caught between a lifelong desire to escape into books and a real-world revolution. It is the mid-eighties, two decades into the kleptocra...

Revealing glimpses of the Philippine Revolution and the Filipino writer Jose Rizal emerge despite the worst efforts of feuding academics in Apostol's hilariously erudite novel, which won the Philippine National Book Award.Gina Apostol's riotous second novel takes the form of a memoir by one Raymundo Mata, a half-blind bookworm and revolutionary, tracing his childhood, his education in Manila, his love affairs, and his discovery of writer and f...

Revealing glimpses of the Philippine Revolution and the Filipino writer Jose Rizal emerge despite the worst efforts of feuding academics in Apostol's hilariously erudite novel, which won the Philippine National Book Award.Gina Apostol's riotous second novel takes the form of a memoir by one Raymundo Mata, a half-blind bookworm and revolutionary, tracing his childhood, his education in Manila, his love affairs, and his discovery of writer and f...

The first ever US publication of Gina Apostol's Philippine National Book Award-winning novel.Raymundo Mata is a visually impaired member of an anti-Spanish Philippine revolutionary society. Told in the form of a memoir, the novel traces Mata's childhood, his education in Manila, his love affairs, and his discovery of José Rizal and his books (Rizal is a real historical figure: an ophthalmologist by profession, he became a novelist and polemici...

A critical, satirical take on Philippine-American history, a powerful contribution to the postcolonial canon, and a fearless exploration of the limits of metafiction, INSURRECTO is a novel about women - artists, lovers, revolutionaries, daughters - finding their way to their own truths and histories.

A bravura performance."-The New York TimesHistories and personalities collide in this literary tour-de-force about the Philippines' present and America's past by the PEN Open Book Award-winning author of Gun Dealers' Daughter. Two women, a Filipino translator and an American filmmaker, go on a road trip in Duterte's Philippines, collaborating and clashing in the writing of a film script about a massacre during the Philippine-American War. Chia...

Histories and personalities collide in this literary tour-de-force about the Philippines' present and America's past by the PEN Open Book AwardDwinning author of "Gun Dealer's Daughter."over.

At university in Manila, young, bookish Soledad Soliman falls in with radical friends, defying her wealthy parents and their society crowd. Drawn in by two romantic young rebels, Jed and his electrifying girlfriend, Sol initiates a conspiracy that quickly spirals out of control, with devastating consequences. Years later, far from the Philippines, Sol reconstructs her fractured memories, writing a confession she hopes will be her salvation. Il...