β Scribed by Miguel Syjuco
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
**"Brilliant . . . Miguel Syjuco is his country's most original and unflinching literary voice." β**Salman Rushdie
"It's a rare novel that leaves you reeling simultaneously with admiration, exhaustion, amazement at its author's reach and skill, and desolation at the world it spreads out before you . . . [A] raging protest of a book." βJames Lasdun, The New York Times Book Review
From Miguel Syjuco, the winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize for Ilustrado, I Was the President's Mistress!! is an unflinching satire about power, corruption, sex, and all the other topics you were told never to discuss in polite company.
First came the Sexy-Sexygate scandal. Then an impeachment trial. Finally, a battle royale for the presidency. At the center of this political typhoon is Vita Nova, the most famous movie star in the Philippines and a former paramour of the country's most powerful man. Now, for the first time ever, she...
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Anderson Carter was a handsome senator in a small Midwest state when Jake Chancellor surprised the world by naming him his running mate. By all accounts he had everything: A meaningful political career, Three equally handsome sons all serving in the marines, And a kind and beautiful wife whom he
This book is about what women and men go through every day but don't want to talk about. It was such a privilege to talk to people while writing this book. Men and women go through the same thing with mistresses. A woman can date another woman's man, and a man can date another man's woman. No matter
Overview: What these ruthless Italians want, they get! And now they want...MISTRESSES When Angelo Riccardi set out to get revenge, he had financial devastation in mind. But innocent and pretty Gwenna Hamilton added another, delicious dimension. She had no chance when the Italian tycoon swooped like