Name: The House on Calle Sombra - A Parable, Paperback/Marga Ortigas
Brand: Penguin Books
Price: 147.99 RON
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'Eye of a journalist, prose of a poet, an exotic tale delicately weaving a nation's history with a family's unravelling. A rags-to-riches parable, in an unfamiliar and evocatively recalled landscape, festooning the reader in garlands of uncanny self-realisation.' -Nic Robertson, International Diplomatic Editor, CNN 'Marga Ortigas has written a stellar, soaring, gut-crunching multi-generational tale that is certain to set on edge the teeth of Manila's great and good. Like the tunnels in the book, this will take you into a world behind the curtain, revealing the universal truths concealed behind jewels, privilege and power.' -Sheila Macvicar, Emmy, Peabody and duPont Award-winning international journalist Ortigas is as well-measured as she is compelling in depicting the Castillos' 'original sin' as she seamlessly navigates the conceits and schemes of the Filipino elite across the time span of three generations. -Javier Sicilia, Award-winning Mexican poet, novelist, and social activist, founder of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity against the crime and violence of Mexico's drug war PORTRAIT OF A MIXED RACE FAMILY GRAPPLING WITH IDENTITY AND BETRAYAL IN A TURBULENT TROPICAL ISLAND NATION The House on Calle Sombra follows the fates and fortunes of the esteemed Castillo de Montijo family over three generations. Set in the Philippines--a tropical island nation where truth blends with fiction--none of the Castillos is quite as perceived. Successful patriarch Don Federic