Please try again. [Paperback] by N.V.M. The scenes of this novel, which is probably the most significant novel to come out of Asia in the post-war period, are laid in New York, Vermont, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Taipei, Manila. It's a more laid-back book than most, and lives more in the gentle surprise of lovely language and concepts than go-go plot or quirky characters. There was a problem loading your book clubs. I like it, but I’m not sure I get it. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Please try again.
. . He was the son of Vicente Gonzalez, a school supervisor, and Pastora Madali, a teacher.
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Recommended for: Zooey Glass in Manila. Very little exegesis is given; it reads as if we are dropped into the middle of conversations full of significance and history and we have to try to figure it out (I felt this way reading Hills Like White Elephants when I was in middle school, so maybe I need to wait twenty years or so and read this again). It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Please try again.
Read December 2017.
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Need another excuse to treat yourself to a new book this week? The novel was granted the Philippine Republic Cultural Heritage Award for Literature for 1960. Probably a book more for the mind and a creative heart (the protagonist is a sculptor) than a "bruising good read," per se. The title refers not only to the famous folk dance—a spectacular “heron-like" dance in which the dancers hop in and out between two bamboo poles clapped together in rhythm—but symbolically also to Filipinos abroad generally and to the situation of the Filipinos in world culture of the modern age. The central protagonist of the novel, a sculptor in America on a fellowship grant, experiences the American culture quite differently from his brother, at physician on a fellowship in California. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. There's this sort of affectless narrator, traveling around the world seemingly at random (New York-Vermont-New York-San Francisco-Tokyo-Kyoto-Hiroshima), existing at a remove from all those he encounters, even his lovers and family. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. The pages, nervous with incident, offer shock after shock of recognition. . Slightly. ...a nimble cosmopolitan tale, as urgent as this morning's headlines--and almost as sinister...The pages, nervous with incident, offer shock after shock of recognition...Tomorrow's Filipinos may walk the land more firmly than we do now; and Gonzalez's novel should gain in importance as a record of the days when our people nimbly danced to the clash of cultures.
Please try again. [Paperback] by N.V.M. The scenes of this novel, which is probably the most significant novel to come out of Asia in the post-war period, are laid in New York, Vermont, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Taipei, Manila. It's a more laid-back book than most, and lives more in the gentle surprise of lovely language and concepts than go-go plot or quirky characters. There was a problem loading your book clubs. I like it, but I’m not sure I get it. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Please try again.
The pages, nervous with incident, offer shock after shock of recognition. There's this sort of affectless narrator, traveling around the world seemingly at rando. Borrowed from SF public library. Very little exegesis is given; it reads as if we are dropped into the middle of conversations full of significance and history and we have to try to figure it out (I felt this way reading Hills Like White Elephants when I was in middle school, so maybe I need to wait twenty years or so and read this again). . There was a problem loading your book clubs.
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