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Dogeaters
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Series: Contemporary American Fiction
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ISBN10: 014014904X
ISBN13: 9780140149043
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Jul 1 1991
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.04 Depth: 7.79
Language: English
Awards: National Book Awards
ISBN13: 9780140149043
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Jul 1 1991
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.04 Depth: 7.79
Language: English
Awards: National Book Awards
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 Philippines--becomes ensnared in a spiral of events culminating in a beauty pageant, a film festival, and an assassination. At the center of this maelstrom is Rio, a feisty schoolgirl who will grow up to live in America and look back with longing on the land of her youth.
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