Ilustrado (Record no. 4516)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780330510028
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Transcribing agency GESM
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Syjuco Miguel
240 00 - UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Ilustrado
245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Ilustrado
Statement of responsibility, etc. Miguel Syjuco
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Picador
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2011
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 304 p.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. `A dazzling and virtuosic adventure' Joseph O'Connor, author of Star of the Sea Internationally Bestselling Winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008 `With Ilustrado, Miguel Syjuco obliges us to remake the canons of our great classics of contemporary literature. Ilustrado is, literally, a masterpiece' Alberto Manguel It begins with a body. One anonymous winter day, the corpse of Crispin Salvador is pulled from the Hudson River. Gone is the controversial giant of Asian literature. And missing is the only manuscript of his final book, an expose of the corrupt roots of the ruling Filipino families, meant to restore his once dazzling reputation. His student, Miguel, is suspicious of the suicide verdict. He investigates: first sifting through the dead man's work for clues, then journeying from New York to Manila, seeking out family, colleagues, and anyone who might hold pieces of the puzzle. But when Miguel assembles the fragments of his mentor's past, this ambitious and rewarding novel expands into far wider contexts - political, social, historical, literary. As patterns emerge, the mystery of a death deepens into the greater mysteries of life - and the reader makes increasingly significant discoveries of their own, until the startling revelation of the final page. `A big, bold, cunning, impassioned, plangent and very funny book' Scotsman `Bristling with comic verve, metafictional playfulness, and an undertone of expatriate nostalgia . . . an impressive, vibrant mix of Borgesian literary labyrinth and acerbic emigre comedy' Sunday Times `A seethingly ambitious debut . . . US critics have cited Bolano as an obvious comparison; others may think of Midnight's Children-era Rushdie' Independent
653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED
Uncontrolled term Authors, Filipino
-- Fiction
-- Murder
-- Investigation
-- Philippines
-- Social conditions
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