Moving, sexy, and archly funny, Gina Apostol’s Philippine National Book Award-winning Bibliolepsy is a love letter to the written word and a brilliantly unorthodox look at the rebellion that brought down a dictatorship. Gina Apostol’s debut novel, available for the first time in the US, tells of a young woman caught between a lifelong desire to escape into books and a real-world revolution. Before her fourth book hit the shelves, Publishers Weekly chose Gina Apostol's Insurrecto as one of the Ten Best Books of Her third book, Gun Dealers' Daughter, won the PEN/Open Book Award and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize. Her first two novels, Bibliolepsy and The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, both won the Juan Laya Prize for the Novel (Philippine . Gina Apostol’s debut novel, available for the first time in the US, tells of a Moving, sexy, and archly funny, Gina Apostol’s Philippine National Book Award-winning Bibliolepsy is a love letter to the written word and a brilliantly unorthodox look at the rebellion that brought down a dictatorship. Gina Apostol’s debut novel, available for the first time in the US, tells of a young woman caught between a lifelong .
Gina Apostol was born in Manila and lives in New York. Her first novel, Bibliolepsy, won the Philippine National Book Award for Fiction. She just completed her third novel, The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, a comic historical novel-in-footnotes about the Philippine war for independence against Spain and America in Gina Apostol's debut novel, available for the first time in the US, tells of a young woman caught between a lifelong desire to escape into books and a real-world revolution. It is the mid-eighties, two decades into the kleptocratic, brutal rule of Ferdinand Marcos. The Philippine economy is in deep recession, and civil unrest is growing by the day. Photo credit: Margarita Corporan Gina Apostol's fourth novel, Insurrecto, was named by Publishers' Weekly one of the Ten Best Books of and selected as an Editor's Choice of the www.doorway.ru third book, Gun Dealers' Daughter, won the PEN/Open Book Award. Her first two novels, Bibliolepsy and The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, both won the Juan Laya Prize for the Novel.
Gina Apostol was born in Manila and lives in New York. Her first novel, Bibliolepsy, won the Philippine National Book Award for Fiction. She just completed her third novel, The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, a comic historical novel-in-footnotes about the Philippine war for independence against Spain and America in Gina Apostol’s debut novel, available for the first time in the US, tells of a Moving, sexy, and archly funny, Gina Apostol’s Philippine National Book Award-winning Bibliolepsy is a love letter to the written word and a brilliantly unorthodox look at the rebellion that brought down a dictatorship. Gina Apostol’s debut novel, available for the first time in the US, tells of a young woman caught between a lifelong desire to escape into books and a real-world revolution. Bibliolepsy. Gina Apostol. Soho, $26 (p) ISBN Filipino author Apostol’s extraordinary latest (her debut in the Philippines, arriving here after The Revolution According to.
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