Apostol Gina - La Tercera - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Rosario Delgado a Filipina novelist in New York City learns of her mother's death in the Philippines. Instead of rushing home she puts off her return by embarking on an investigation into her family's history and her mother's supposed inheritance a place called La Tercera which may or may not exist. Rosario catalogues generations of family bequests and detritus: maps of uncertain purpose rusted chicken coops a secret journal the words to songs sung at the family home during visits from Imelda Marcos. Each life Rosario explores opens onto a multitude of other lives and raises a multitude of questions. But as the search for La Tercera becomes increasingly labyrinthine Rosario's mother and the entire Delgado family emerge in all their dizzying complexity: traitors and heroes reactionaries and revolutionaries. Meanwhile another narrative takes shape - of the country's erased history of exploitation and slaughter at the hands of American occupying forces. L a Tercer a is Gina Apostol's most ambitious personal and encompassing novel - a story about the impossibility of capturing the truth of the past and the terrible cost to a family or a country that fails to try.
Title: La Tercera
Author(s): Apostol Gina
Publisher: Soho Press
Barcode: 9781641293907
Pages: 480 Pages
Publication Date: 5/2/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction