Description
Set in Manila’s privileged enclaves, this novel follows a life shaped by dispossession, where wealth and power are inherited like property—and justice is treated as an afterthought. Through the perspective of a woman at the margins, the story turns the usual gaze outward, exposing how social hypocrisy, exploitation, and class privilege corrode both individuals and the city itself. Woven with historical memory and the lingering aftermath of colonial and revolutionary struggles, it traces how the past continues to govern the present. Written in Francisco Sionil José’s incisive, socially charged style, the book is a sweeping meditation on inequality, dignity, and the moral cost of “respectability.”
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paperback
Solidaridad/PALH
Published Mar 15, 1994
324 pages
ISBN: 9789718845127
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First Published
1988
Language
spa
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