| Description |
464 pages : genealogical tables ; 24 cm |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [459]-461). |
| Summary |
Rosario, a Filipina novelist in New York City, has just learned of her mother's death in the Philippines. Instead of rushing home, she puts off her return by embarking on a remote investigation into her family's history and her mother's supposed inheritance, a place called La Tercera, which may or may not exist. Rosario catalogs generations of Delgado family bequests and detritus: maps of uncertain purpose, rusted chicken coops, a secret journal, the words to songs sung at the family home during visits from Imelda Marcos. Each life Rosario explores opens onto an array of other lives and raises a multitude of new questions. But as the search for La Tercera becomes increasingly labyrinthine, Rosario's mother and the entire Delgado family emerge in all their dizzying complexity: traitors and heroes, reactionaries and revolutionaries. Meanwhile, another narrative takes shape--of the country's erased history of exploitation and slaughter at the hands of American occupying forces. La Tercera is Gina Apostol's most ambitious, personal, and encompassing novel: a story about what seems impossible--capturing the truth of the past--and the terrible cost to a family, or a country, that fails to try--Publisher's description. |
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Daughters -- Fiction.
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Novelists -- Fiction.
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Mothers -- Death -- Fiction.
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Families -- History -- Fiction.
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Inheritance and succession -- Philippines -- Fiction.
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Philippines -- History -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Historical fiction.
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Novels.
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| ISBN |
9781641293907 hardcover : $27.00 |
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164129390X hardcover |
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