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Insurrecto

by Gina Apostol
Insurrecto
Insurrecto

Intertwining narratives explore Philippine-American history.

"Insurrecto" isn't just a read; it's an experience. The intricate dance between the two scripts within the book challenges the reader to look beyond the surface of history, highlighting the untold stories of women and revolutionaries. If you're a fan of novels that play with structure and perspective, much like a literary puzzle, this could be a thought-provoking journey for you.

  • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2019)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Insurrecto

by Gina Apostol
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ISBN: 9781641290920
Authors: Gina Apostol
Publisher: Soho Press
Date of Publication: 2019-08-20
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: War, Asian Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.5
(rated by 1777 readers)

Description

A bravura performance."— The New York TimesHistories 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. Apost
 

Intertwining narratives explore Philippine-American history.

"Insurrecto" isn't just a read; it's an experience. The intricate dance between the two scripts within the book challenges the reader to look beyond the surface of history, highlighting the untold stories of women and revolutionaries. If you're a fan of novels that play with structure and perspective, much like a literary puzzle, this could be a thought-provoking journey for you.

  • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2019)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.