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PublisherSOHO Press, Incorporated

ISBN-101616959444

ISBN-139781616959449

eBay Product ID (ePID)245256257

Product Key Features

Book TitleInsurrecto

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2018

TopicWar & Military, Family Life, Asian American, Historical

GenreFiction

AuthorGina Apostol

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight17.2 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2018-027922

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsThe Millions Most Anticipated Fall Books of 2018 Praise for Insurrecto "Dazzling, interlocking narratives on history, truth, and storytelling." --Kirkus Reviews "Gina Apostol--a smart writer, a sharp critic, a keen intellectual--takes on the vexed relationship between the Philippines and the United States, pivoting on that relationship's bloody origins. Insurrecto is meta-fictional, meta-cinematic, even meta-meta, plunging us into the vortex of memory, history, and war where we can feel what it means to be forgotten, and what it takes to be remembered." --Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer "A book by Gina Apostol is always an event, and this latest one is no exception. Lush and vigorous, Insurrecto mines the Philippines' troubled past with a scholar's careful attention to detail and examines the enduring riddles of voice and identity, revolution and nation. The ghosts of history stalk the pages of this dizzying, stunning novel, their footsteps echoing in our fraught and uncertain times." --F.H. Batacan, author of Smaller and Smaller Circles "A searing and psychedelic road trip through the long, sordid history of Philippine-American relations, Insurrecto is at once a murder mystery, a war movie, and a moving exploration of all the ways grief lives on, both in a people and in a person. A masterful puzzle, in which, as Apostol writes, 'one story told may unbury another.'" --Elaine Castillo, author of America Is Not the Heart "In Insurrecto , a polymath's lyricism is woven with sharp cultural study and post-colonial tristesse. A deft and labyrinthine depiction of our helpless condition of ever-revolving insurrection, Gina Apostol has created an elegant mise en abyme wherein the colonizer and the colonized reflect themselves over and over and yet over again." -- Eugene Lim, author of Dear Cyborgs " Insurrecto is an intricate fever dream of a novel. Gina Apostol's sublime intellect, razor-sharp humor, and fierce moral conviction shine a powerful light on the Philippines' violent history and present-day traumas. Through wildly inventive prose and richly layered plots, this book will provoke, unsettle, and ultimately transform the ways we read and remember the past." --Mia Alvar, author of In the Country Praise for Gina Apostol "[Apostol] weaves the complex tangle of Philppine history, literature, and languages (along with contemporary academic scholarship) into a brilliant tour de force of a novel." --John Barth, author of Lost in the Funhouse "A daring, fever dream of a novel." -- Alex Gilvarry, author of From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant "Brilliant . . . Apostol creates one of the most compelling characters in recent fiction." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "Probes the hard truths of love, nationhood and exile . . . Apostol is a fearless, stylish writer of substance." --Jessica Hagedorn, author of Dogeaters "Apostol's writing is marked by a fierce intelligence, uncommonly delicious language, and a dark undercurrent of humor. As others have observed, she is a master of delineating the personal with the political, and how they are inextricably entwined. Also--and this is no small feat--she seems incapable of writing an unimpressive sentence." --Luis Katigbak, The Philippine Star, Praise for Insurrecto "Gina Apostol--a smart writer, a sharp critic, a keen intellectual--takes on the vexed relationship between the Philippines and the United States, pivoting on that relationship's bloody origins. Insurrecto is meta-fictional, meta-cinematic, even meta-meta, plunging us into the vortex of memory, history, and war where we can feel what it means to be forgotten, and what it takes to be remembered." --Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author The Sympathizer, The Millions Most Anticipated Fall Books of 2018 Praise for Insurrecto "Dazzling, interlocking narratives on history, truth, and storytelling." --Kirkus Reviews "Gina Apostol--a smart writer, a sharp critic, a keen intellectual--takes on the vexed relationship between the Philippines and the United States, pivoting on that relationship's bloody origins. Insurrecto is meta-fictional, meta-cinematic, even meta-meta, plunging us into the vortex of memory, history, and war where we can feel what it means to be forgotten, and what it takes to be remembered." --Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer "A book by Gina Apostol is always an event, and this latest one is no exception. Lush and vigorous, Insurrecto mines the Philippines' troubled past with a scholar's careful attention to detail, and examines the enduring riddles of voice and identity, revolution and nation. The ghosts of history stalk the pages of this dizzying, stunning novel, their footsteps echoing in our fraught and uncertain times." --F.H. Batacan, author of Smaller and Smaller Circles "A searing and psychedelic road trip through the long, sordid history of Philippine-American relations, Insurrecto is at once a murder mystery, a war movie, and a moving exploration of all the ways grief lives on, both in a people and in a person. A masterful puzzle, in which, as Apostol writes, 'one story told may unbury another.'" --Elaine Castillo, author of America Is Not the Heart "In Insurrecto , a polymath's lyricism is woven with sharp cultural study and post-colonial tristesse. A deft and labyrinthine depiction of our helpless condition of ever-revolving insurrection, Gina Apostol has created an elegant mise en abyme wherein the colonizer and the colonized reflect themselves over and over and yet over again." -- Eugene Lim, author of Dear Cyborgs " Insurrecto is an intricate fever dream of a novel. Gina Apostol's sublime intellect, razor-sharp humor, and fierce moral conviction shine a powerful light on the Philippines' violent history and present-day traumas. Through wildly inventive prose and richly layered plots, this book will provoke, unsettle, and ultimately transform the ways we read and remember the past." --Mia Alvar, author of In the Country Praise for Gina Apostol "[Apostol] weaves the complex tangle of Philppine history, literature, and languages (along with contemporary academic scholarship) into a brilliant tour de force of a novel." --John Barth, author of Lost in the Funhouse "A daring, fever dream of a novel." -- Alex Gilvarry, author of From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant "Brilliant . . . Apostol creates one of the most compelling characters in recent fiction." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "Probes the hard truths of love, nationhood and exile . . . Apostol is a fearless, stylish writer of substance." --Jessica Hagedorn, author of Dogeaters "Apostol's writing is marked by a fierce intelligence, uncommonly delicious language, and a dark undercurrent of humor. As others have observed, she is a master of delineating the personal with the political, and how they are inextricably entwined. Also--and this is no small feat--she seems incapable of writing an unimpressive sentence." --Luis Katigbak, The Philippine Star

Dewey Decimal823.92

Synopsis"A bravura performance."-- The New York Times Histories 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. Chiara is working on a film about an incident in Balangiga, Samar, in 1901, when Filipino revolutionaries attacked an American garrison, and in retaliation American soldiers created "a howling wilderness" of the surrounding countryside. Magsalin reads Chiara's film script and writes her own version. Insurrecto contains within its dramatic action two rival scripts from the filmmaker and the translator--one about a white photographer, the other about a Filipino schoolteacher. Within the spiraling voices and narrative layers of Insurrecto are stories of women--artists, lovers, revolutionaries, daughters--finding their way to their own truths and histories. Using interlocking voices and a kaleidoscopic structure, the novel is startlingly innovative, meditative, and playful. Insurrecto masterfully questions and twists narrative in the manner of Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler , Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch , and Nabokov's Pale Fire . Apostol pushes up against the limits of fiction in order to recover the atrocity in Balangiga, and in so doing, she shows us the dark heart of an untold and forgotten war that would shape the next century of Philippine and American history., A bravura performance.-- The New York Times Histories 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. Chiara is working on a film about an incident in Balangiga, Samar, in 1901, when Filipino revolutionaries attacked an American garrison, and in retaliation American soldiers created "a howling wilderness" of the surrounding countryside. Magsalin reads Chiara's film script and writes her own version. Insurrecto contains within its dramatic action two rival scripts from the filmmaker and the translator--one about a white photographer, the other about a Filipino schoolteacher. Within the spiraling voices and narrative layers of Insurrecto are stories of women--artists, lovers, revolutionaries, daughters--finding their way to their own truths and histories. Using interlocking voices and a kaleidoscopic structure, the novel is startlingly innovative, meditative, and playful. Insurrecto masterfully questions and twists narrative in the manner of Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler , Julio Cort zar's Hopscotch , and Nabokov's Pale Fire . Apostol pushes up against the limits of fiction in order to recover the atrocity in Balangiga, and in so doing, she shows us the dark heart of an untold and forgotten war that would shape the next century of Philippine and American history., "A bravura performance."-- The New York Times Histories 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. Chiara is working on a film about an incident in Balangiga, Samar, in 1901, when Filipino revolutionaries attacked an American garrison, and in retaliation American soldiers created "a howling wilderness" of the surrounding countryside. Magsalin reads Chiara's film script and writes her own version. Insurrecto contains within its dramatic action two rival scripts from the filmmaker and the translator--one about a white photographer, the other about a Filipino schoolteacher. Within the spiraling voices and narrative layers of Insurrecto are stories of women--artists, lovers, revolutionaries, daughters--finding their way to their own truths and histories. Using interlocking voices and a kaleidoscopic structure, the novel is startlingly innovative, meditative, and playful. Insurrecto masterfully questions and twists narrative in the manner of Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler , Julio Cort zar's Hopscotch , and Nabokov's Pale Fire . Apostol pushes up against the limits of fiction in order to recover the atrocity in Balangiga, and in so doing, she shows us the dark heart of an untold and forgotten war that would shape the next century of Philippine and American history.

LC Classification NumberPR9550.9.A66I57 2018