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Dogeaters
Jessica Hagedorn
出版
Penguin Publishing Group
, 1990
主題
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Cultural Heritage
ISBN
014014904X
9780140149043
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=g3ZN-WPuNRoC&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
“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.
