This novel, set in the Philippines, gives a disturbing picture of one part of the country and one part of its very mixed society. Sometimes shocking, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always surprising - to readers in the West - this is a simple, yet very complicated story beginning when the body of a woman turns up at Manila airport, with the wrong identification . . . after which anything can happen - and does.
(Ange Guttierez Dewar - bwl 60 Spring 2011 ) |
