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“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

A classic and influential story—often considered “the quintessential Filipino American novel” (The Nation)—centered on the cultural and political stakes of life in Marcos-era Philippines

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

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—including movie stars and waiters, a young junkie and the richest man in the Phil

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    A Paperback / softback by Jessica Hagedorn

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/07/1991
      ISBN13: 9780140149043, 978-0140149043
      ISBN10: 014014904X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      “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

      A classic and influential story—often considered “the quintessential Filipino American novel” (The Nation)—centered on the cultural and political stakes of life in Marcos-era Philippines

      One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

      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—including movie stars and waiters, a young junkie and the richest man in the Phil

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