Insurrecto

Więcej o książce

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, embark on a road trip in Duterte's Philippines, collaborating and clashing over a film script about a massacre during the Philippine-American War. Chiara focuses on the 1901 Balangiga incident, where Filipino revolutionaries attacked an American garrison, leading to devastating retaliation. Magsalin reads Chiara's script and creates her own version, resulting in two rival narratives—one featuring a white photographer and the other a Filipino schoolteacher. The novel weaves together the voices and stories of women—artists, lovers, revolutionaries, daughters—seeking their truths and histories. With interlocking voices and a kaleidoscopic structure, it is innovative, meditative, and playful. The narrative challenges traditional storytelling, reminiscent of Italo Calvino, Julio Cortazar, and Nabokov. Apostol pushes the boundaries of fiction to reveal the atrocities of Balangiga, exposing the dark heart of a forgotten war that shaped Philippine and American history for the next century.