{"product_id":"insurrecto-paperback","title":"Insurrecto - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGina Apostol\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A bravura performance.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHistories 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 \u003ci\u003eGun Dealers' Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eInsurrecto \u003c\/i\u003econtains within its dramatic action two rival scripts from the filmmaker and the translator--one about a white photographer, the other about a Filipino schoolteacher. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Within the spiraling voices and narrative layers of \u003ci\u003eInsurrecto \u003c\/i\u003eare 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. \u003ci\u003eInsurrecto \u003c\/i\u003emasterfully questions and twists narrative in the manner of Italo Calvino's \u003ci\u003eIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler\u003c\/i\u003e, Julio Cortázar's \u003ci\u003eHopscotch\u003c\/i\u003e, and Nabokov's \u003ci\u003ePale Fire\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGina Apostol is the PEN Open Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eGun Dealers' Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a two-time winner of the National Book Award in the Philippines for her novels \u003ci\u003eBibliolepsy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Revolution According to Raymundo Mata\u003c\/i\u003e. Her short stories have appeared in various anthologies and journals including \u003ci\u003eThe Gettysburg Review\u003c\/i\u003e and the Penguin anthology of Asian American fiction, \u003ci\u003eCharlie Chan is Dead, Volume 2\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.1 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 20, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42730191290431,"sku":"9781641290920","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/4478acf83869ed74f67071acfcbd6c8e.webp?v=1765125164","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/insurrecto-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}