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Winner of the 1993 National Book Award for Fiction, Co-Winner of the 1993 Palanca Grand Prize for the Novel, and Winner of the 1993 UP President's Award for Most Outstanding Publication. KILLING TIME IN A WARM PLACE is a novel of growing up in the Philippines during the Marcos years. Told in the voice of its protagonist, Noel Ilustre Bulaong, the narrative travels through familiar social and literary territory: the coconut groves of Bulaong's childhood, Manila's hovel, the Diliman Commune, "UG"safehouses, martial law prisons, and the homes and offices of the petty-bourgeoisie. It is a story of false horizons, of betrayal, compromise, and guilt, and not incidentally of the contemporary middle-class Filipino's migration from the village to the metropolis to the outside world. "TELL US THE TRUTH!"we demand of a book, and this one does with calculated vivacity, spiked with galling humor, wit and felicity of language that gives the Filipino novel a new stature." (NVM) "...Consummate craftsmanship characterized by clear and firm language, an absorbing narrative, and loving insights into the Filipino psyche...a sympathetic, contemporary record of our turbulent days." (National Book Award citation, Manila Critics Circle)
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- PublisherAnvil Publishing, Inc.
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 9712717933
- ISBN 13 9789712717932
- BindingPaperback
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