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Ghosts of Manila

James Hamilton-Paterson

3.4/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 279

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Jonathan Cape

Release: November 07, 1994

ISBN: 0374161909

ISBN 13: 9780374161903

Ghosts of Manila

James Hamilton-Paterson

3.4/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 279

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Jonathan Cape

Release: November 07, 1994

ISBN: 0374161909

ISBN 13: 9780374161903

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