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040			_erda
050			_aPR 9559.9 _b.Y1 2019
100			_aYabes, Criselda. _930261
245		0	_aBroken islands : _ba novel / _cCriselda Yabes.
264			_aQuezon City : _bBughaw, _cc2019.
300			_a310 pages _c20 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_aSet in the aftermath of Typhoon Yolanda, Broken Islands is about two women-Luna and Alba-whose lives become entangled through their occupation of a house and their relationships with each other and with the Cimafranca paterfamilias Manoy, who is uncle to one and amo to the other. In this beautifully written and realized novel, the characters are as vividly rendered as the Borbon (Cebu ca. 2015) they inhabit, and as complex. The novel, particularly the sections on Typhoon Yolanda and the bungled rescue and reconstruction efforts in its wake, is notable for marrying literary sensibility and expression with journalism's fidelity to facts and on-the-ground observation. Exploring issues of class and gender hierarchy and inequality, the novel refuses easy (re)solutions, offering instead a subtle, dark-tinged vision of our broken islands.
650			_aPhilippine fiction (English).
942			_cFIL
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