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Oct 28, 2011 · Syjuco, Miguel, 1976-. Publication date. 2010. Topics. Authors, Filipino, Murder. Publisher. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled.
Jan 1, 2008 · Ilustrado. Miguel Syjuco. 3.36. 2,627 ratings340 reviews. It begins with a body. On a clear day in winter, the battered corpse of Crispin Salvador is pulled from the Hudson River—taken from the world is the controversial lion of Philippine literature.
Ilustrado. Illustrado begins with the death of the mentor of a Filipino expatriate Miguel Syjuco named Crispin Salvador. In the novel, Syjuco returns to the Philippines to write a biography about him.
His student, Miguel, investigates, journeying home from a city still in shock from terrorist attacks to a country caught between reckless decay and desperate progress. To understand his...
Apr 27, 2010 · Miguel Syjuco's debut novel, Ilustrado, opens with Crispin Salvador, lion of Philippine letters, dead in the Hudson River.
Apr 27, 2010 · Miguel Syjuco. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Apr 27, 2010 - Fiction - 320 pages. Garnering international prizes and acclaim before its publication, Ilustrado has been called "brilliantly conceived and stylishly executed . . .
In a daring literary performance, Syjuco weaves the invented with the factual . . . Ilustrado is being presented as a tracing of 150 years of Philippine history, but it's considerably more than that . . .
Apr 30, 2010 · In the shifting terrain of this remarkably ambitious and daring first novel, Miguel Syjuco explores fatherhood, regret, revolution, and the mysteries of lives lived and...
Ilustrado is a 2008 experimental novel by Filipino author Miguel Syjuco. Its protagonist—also a Filipino author named Miguel Syjuco—is investigating the suspicious death of his mentor, Crispin Salvador, whose final, unpublished work was an exposé of rampant political corruption in the Philippines.
MIGUEL SYJUCO is a Filipino writer, civil society advocate, and professor at New York University Abu Dhabi. His debut novel, Ilustrado, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and won the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Palanca Awards Grand Prize, his country’s top literary honor.
