Apostol Gina - La Tercera - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Rosario a Filipina novelist in New York City has just learned of her mother's death in the Philippines. Instead of rushing home she puts off her return by embarking on a remote investigation into her family's history and her mother's supposed inheritance a place called La Tercera which may or may not exist. Rosario catalogs generations of Delgado 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 an array of other lives and raises a multitude of new 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. La Tercera is Gina Apostol's most ambitious personal and encompassing novel: a story about what seems impossible - 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: 9781641295727
Pages: 480 Pages
Publication Date: 4/2/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction