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Gun Dealers’ Daughter: A Novel
Gina ApostolWinner 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 revolution—the argument being that literature can be revolution.
Gina Apostol is the author of the novels Insurrecto, Gun Dealers' Daughter, & The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata. She is the recipient of a PEN/Open Book Award & two Philippine National Book Awards. Her essays & stories have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Foreign Policy, Gettysburg Review, & Massachusetts Review. She lives in New York City & western Massachusetts & grew up in Tacloban, Leyte, in the Philippines.
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