Ghosts of Manila is a haunting novel set in one of the world's most violent cities. It opens in a wasteland near Manila Airport, where a factory produces marketable human skeletons from the bodies of derelicts - and the victims of police death squads. The violence that follows, rendered in often breathtaking prose, affects a diverse group of characters: an English television journalist who tries gamely to understand Philippine society; a cool woman archaeologist who is drawn into the country's weird oligarchy; a venally ...
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Ghosts of Manila is a haunting novel set in one of the world's most violent cities. It opens in a wasteland near Manila Airport, where a factory produces marketable human skeletons from the bodies of derelicts - and the victims of police death squads. The violence that follows, rendered in often breathtaking prose, affects a diverse group of characters: an English television journalist who tries gamely to understand Philippine society; a cool woman archaeologist who is drawn into the country's weird oligarchy; a venally corrupt cop who cannot shake the ghosts that visit him; and an embattled family who live in a shantytown near a cemetery where the dead dwell in high style.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First United States edition. Spine slanted. DJ and boards sunned and tanned. Light edgewear on DJ. Pages tanning.; 6.25 X 1 X 9.25 inches; 279 pages.
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