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Reviewed on October 15, 2018 | Fiction
Apostol (Gun Dealers' Daughter) offers a complex, nonlinear novel that centers on atrocities committed during the Philippine-American War, events little known to most Americans. These episodes are recounted through a multilayered story about Chiara, a filmmaker whose father directed a movie about the Vietnam War in Samar, Philippines, in the 1970s, and Magsalin, a writer and translator whom Chiara hires as a guide. As they travel together ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
