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"Histories and personalities collide in this literary tour-de-force about the Philippines' present and America's past by the PEN Open Book Award-winning author of Gun Dealer's Daughter. Two women, a Filipino translator and an American filmmaker, go on a road trip in Duterte's Philippines, collaborating and clashing in the writing of a film script about a massacre during the Philippine-American War. Chiara is working on a film about an incident in Balangiga, Samar, in 1901, when Filipino revolutionaries attacked an American garrison, and in retaliation American soldiers created "a howling…
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5 editions- Audiobook · English · 2021Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pages · 9781665134736
- Audiobook · English · 2021Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pages · 9781665134743
- Paperback · English · 2019Soho Press · 368 pages · 9781641290920
- Audiobook · English · 2018HighBridge Audio · 9781684414086
- Other · English · 2018Soho Press · 316 pages · 9781616959449
Motion picture producers and directorsHistoryFictionTranslatorsWomenFiction, historicalPhilippines, fictionFiction, war & military