Wings of Stone - Hardcover
After years of living in the U.S., Johnny Manalo returns to the Philippines after the assassination of Acquino, and discovers the country has become immersed in corruption
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This is a provocative novel about a Filipino who, on the eve of the recent revolution, returns home after living in the United States for 13 years. Ty-Casper, author of Awaiting Trespass, traces the man's inner thoughts as he gropes for meaning in a land pervaded by corruption and incongruities of nightmarish proportions and where the violence of the dying regime is a principle of life. For Johnny Manalo, the Philippines are familiar yet strange, and rather than being galvanized into activism he suffers from self-admitted political impotence. Dreaming of flight and freedom, he finds that he merely has wings of stone. The narrative ends with the destruction of a squatter camp in a terrifying conflagration, an occurrence that poses a question about the future of the Philippines: will life and rebirth emerge from the chaos and flames?
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- PublisherUNKNO
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0930523261
- ISBN 13 9780930523268
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages170
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Wings of Stone
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Readers International, New York, NY, USA
(1986)
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ISBN 13: 9780930523268
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