Description
"An original, raw, and wild novel that has held its power and demands to be read."
--Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer
Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and Winner of the American Book Award Welcome to Manila in the turbulent period of the Philippines' late dictator. It is a world in which American pop culture and local Filipino tradition mix flamboyantly, and gossip, storytelling, and extravagant behavior thrive. A wildly disparate group of characters--from movie stars to waiters, from a young junkie to the richest man in the Philippines--becomes caught up in a spiral of events culminating in a beauty pageant, a film festival, and an assassination. In the center of this maelstrom is Rio, a feisty schoolgirl who will grow up to live in America and look back with longing on the land of her youth.
Author: Jessica Hagedorn
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 07/01/1991
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 7.79h x 5.04w x 0.55d
ISBN13: 9780140149043
ISBN10: 014014904X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Cultural Heritage
--Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer
Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and Winner of the American Book Award Welcome to Manila in the turbulent period of the Philippines' late dictator. It is a world in which American pop culture and local Filipino tradition mix flamboyantly, and gossip, storytelling, and extravagant behavior thrive. A wildly disparate group of characters--from movie stars to waiters, from a young junkie to the richest man in the Philippines--becomes caught up in a spiral of events culminating in a beauty pageant, a film festival, and an assassination. In the center of this maelstrom is Rio, a feisty schoolgirl who will grow up to live in America and look back with longing on the land of her youth.
Author: Jessica Hagedorn
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 07/01/1991
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 7.79h x 5.04w x 0.55d
ISBN13: 9780140149043
ISBN10: 014014904X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Cultural Heritage
About the Author
Jessica Hagedorn was born and raised in the Philippines and came to the United States in her early teens. Her novels include Toxicology, Dream Jungle, The Gangster Of Love, and Dogeaters, winner of the American Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Award. She is also the author of Danger And Beauty, a collection of poetry and prose, and the editor of three anthologies: Manila Noir, Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction and Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home In The World.