Historical fiction books from Philippines
Recommended historical fiction books (1)
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If you are into historical fiction here are some historical fiction books from Philippines for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Bibliolepsy by Gina Apostol EN
Country: Asia / Philippines
Philippines
Description:
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 kleptocratic, brutal rule of Ferdinand Marcos. The Philippine economy is in deep recession, and civil unrest is growing by the day. But Primi Peregrino has her ow... continue