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The betrayed / Reine Arcache Melvin.
Van Pelt Library PR9550.9.M44 B48 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Melvin, Reine Arcache, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philippine fiction (English).
- Sisters--Fiction.
- Sisters.
- Dictatorship--Fiction.
- Dictatorship.
- Philippines--Fiction.
- Philippines.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 463 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Europa Editions, 2022.
- Summary:
- The Betrayed tells the story of two sisters who love the same man. As dictatorship and political upheaval ravage the Philippines, the sister's conflicting passions threaten to lead them to betray not only each other, but all that their father stood for. Shy, idealistic Pilar initially resolves to carry on her father's fight against the regime, while her flamboyant older sister Lali reacts by marrying the enemy - Arturo, the dictator's godson. Each tries to find their place in this violent world, but can they withstand the corruption of politics and the relentless pull of their own desires?Taking in the Philippines' troubled history from the Marcos dictatorship to the establishment of the present totalitarian regime, and expertly layering the many aspects of the human condition, The Betrayed is a complex and luminous novel.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. One Now That I Am Dead
- ch. Two The Eclipse
- ch. Three The Fish
- ch. Four The Gift
- ch. Five Love Released Like Lepers
- ch. Six A Man Without Consequences
- ch. Seven Pilar's Dream
- ch. Eight The Birth
- ch. Nine The Christening
- ch. Ten The Journey
- ch. Eleven Scales
- ch. Twelve Home
- ch. Thirteen The Blackout
- ch. Fourteen Their Lives.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 1609457730
- 9781609457730
- 9781787703896
- 1787703894
- OCLC:
- 1280045195
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