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050 _aPS 9993.D25
_b.So43 2008
100 _aDalisay, Jose Y.
_933764
245 0 _aSoledad's sister :
_ba novel /
_cJose Dalisay.
260 _aPasig City :
_bAnvil Publishing,
_cc2008.
300 _avii, 194 p. :
_c22 cm.
500 _aShortlisted 2007 the man Asian literary prize--Cover.
520 _a Rory fee that her sister never achieved. Somewhere on its long way home, the body gets stolen, and things get even more confused than ever.
520 _a the body bears signs of foul play and abuse, and now waits to be claimed at the airport. A Paez policeman, Walter, is signed to drive out to Manila to pick up the body, accompanied by Rory. Both Walter and Rory, who vaguely know each other, find their own lives redefined by the sudden return of the dead: Walter has been left by his wife and son for a new life in England
520 _a the woman in the box must be her sister Soledad who used Rory's identity to secure how this woman died
520 _aA casket arrives at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila, bearing the body of a woman manifested as "Aurora V. Cabahug" -one of over 600 overseas Filipino workers who return as corpses to this airport every year. The real Aurora, however, is very much alive, a karaoke-bar singer in the distant town of Paez
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