TY - BOOK AU - Batacan, F. H. TI - Smaller and smaller circles: a novel SN - 9789715423649 AV - PS 9993.B326 .Sm18 2002 PY - 2002/// CY - Quezon City PB - University of the Philippines Press N2 - Smaller and Smaller Circles is unique in the Philippine literary scene-a Pinoy detective novel, both fast-spaced and intelligent, with a Jesuit priest who also happens to be a forensic anthropologist as the sleuth. When it won the Carlos Palanca Grand Prize for the English Novel in 1999, it proved that fiction can be both "popular" and "literary." ER -