The sky over dimas : a novel / Vicente Garcia Groyon.

Originally published: Manila : De La Salle University Press, c2003.

Grand for the Novel, Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature Manila Critics Circle National Book Award The fact is : George Torrecarion went crazy. A disturbing phone call in the dead of night launches young Rafael Torrecarion on a rescue mission in Negros Occidental. Returning to his hometown leads him deep into the tortured history of the Torrecarions, where lies a web of long-buried secrets, preserving and threatening the foundations of his family. "Groyon's familiarity with the Bacolod matrix of manners-surreally rich scions, weird personalities, outrageously decadent lifestyles-has endowed him with the rich material to mine and/or undermine for his fiction. The sky over Dimas reads exceedingly well, with its stylized construction serving the clear and illuminating prose as fine form perfectly following fluid function." Alfred Yuson. "A twisting engrossing tale of a family's secrets. The sky over Dimas . . . makes for a gripping. sleek read." Sunday Inquirerer Magazine. "An ambitious, high-wire act . . .written in consistently flawless and elegant prose that confirms the credo that fiction is twin sister to poetry . . . .Beneath the author's lyrical prose and the sheen of precocious wisdom beats a heart of pure pulp."