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出版Pantheon Books, 1990
主題Fiction / General
ISBN03945749829780394574981
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ruqwAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Welcome to Manila in the turbulent period of the Philippines' late dictator. It is a world in which American pop and local Filipino tradition mix flamboyantly, and gossip, storytelling, and extravagant behavior thrive. A wildly diparate group of characters - from movie stars to waiters, from a young junkie to the richest man in the Philipppines - becomes caught up in a spiral of events culminating in a beauty pageant, a film festival, and an assassination. In 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.