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Gun Dealers' Daughter : a Novel by Apostol, Gina is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Winner of the PEN/Open Book Award At university in Manila, young, bookish Soledad Soliman falls in with radical friends, defying her wealthy parents & their society crowd. Drawn in by two romantic young rebels, Sol initiates a conspiracy that quickly spirals out of control. Years later, far from her homeland, Sol reconstructs her fractured memories, writing a confession she hopes will be her salvation. Illuminating the dramatic history of the Marcos-era Philippines, this story of youthful passion is a tour de force.From Los Angeles Review of Books:IN HER BRILLIANT NEW NOVEL & American debut, Gun Dealers’ Daughter, Filipino writer Gina Apostol creates one of the most compelling characters in recent fiction: Soledad Soliman, daughter of a wealthy arms merchant during the Marcos years, useful fool & maybe worse. Soledad herself pieces the story together for us — of how bad turned to worse — & whatever one makes of it finally, she holds our attention to the last word with what is almost, yes, a writer’s sensibility & style.From the Judges’ Citation, PEN/Open Book Award:Not only does this novel make an argument for social revolution, it makes an argument for the role of literature in re
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Apostol, Gina
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780393062946
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 3.68 / 5 (138 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13