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Jan 1, 2008 · Miguel Syjuco. 3.36. 2,647 ratings346 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 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Filipino author named Miguel Syjuco—is investigating the suspicious death of his mentor, Crispin Salvador, whose final, unpublished work was an exposé of rampant political corruption in the Philippines.
Jun 11, 2010 · His researcher and acolyte, Miguel Syjuco, is determined to discover the cause of Salvador’s death — suicide or murder? — and find the manuscript of a book Salvador had been working on for ...
May 24, 2011 · 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. Miguel Syjuco. Picador, 2010 - Fiction - 308 pages. It begins with a body. On a clear day in winter, the battered corpse of Crispin Salvador is pulled from the Hudson River - taken...
Ilustrado opens with Crispin Salvador, lion of Philippine letters, dead in the Hudson River. His young acolyte, Miguel, sets out to investigate the author's suspicious death and the strange...
Miguel, his student and only remaining friend, sets out for Manila to investigate. To understand the death, Miguel scours the life, piecing together Salvador’s story through his poetry, interviews, novels, polemics, and memoirs.
Oct 28, 2011 · Ilustrado by Syjuco, Miguel, 1976-Publication date 2010 Topics Authors, Filipino, Murder Publisher New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 422.3M . Access-restricted-item
Apr 27, 2010 · Written by Miguel Syjuco, Ilustrado is an eye-addicting novel that won the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize and the Philippines’ highest literary honor, the Palanca Award. Narrated in an almost schizophrenic point of view, switching between voices, ...
