Wings of Stone - Hardcover

Ty-Casper, Linda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 093052327X ISBN 13: 9780930523275

Publisher: Readers International, 2020

Synopsis

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

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

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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Edition details

• Publisher: Readers International
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 093052327X
• ISBN 13: 9780930523275
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 218