Insurrecto - Couverture souple

Apostol, Gina

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 191309703X ISBN 13 : 9781913097035

Editeur : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2019

Synopsis

In 1901, Filipino revolutionaries attacked an American garrison in Balangiga, on the island of Samar, and American soldiers created ‘a howling wilderness’ of the surrounding countryside in retaliation, murdering thousands of the inhabitants of Balangiga. In the 1970s, the American filmmaker Ludo Brasi went missing in Samar while shooting a movie, The Unintended, inspired by these events. In 2018, his daughter Chiara and the Filipino translator Magsalin go on a road trip in Duterte’s Philippines. Chiara is working on a film about the Balangiga massacre, when Magsalin reads Chiara’s film script and writes her own version of the story. Within the spiralling voices and narrative layers of Insurrecto are stories of women – artists, lovers, revolutionaries, daughters – finding their way to their own truths and histories. By pushing up against the limits of fiction in order to recover the atrocity in Balangiga, Gina Apostol shows us the dark heart of an untold and forgotten war.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gina Apostol is the author of the novels La Tercera, Insurrecto, Gun Dealers’ Daughter, The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, and Bibliolepsy. She is the winner of two Philippine National Book Awards, the PEN/Open Book Award, and the Rome Prize. She lives in New York City and western Massachusetts and grew up in Tacloban, Leyte, in the Philippines.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 191309703X
• ISBN 13: 9781913097035
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible