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Manila Noir

โœ Scribed by Hagedorn, Jessica

Book ID
109031528
Publisher
akashic books
Year
2013
Tongue
English
Weight
7 MB
Series
Akashic City Noir
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781617751608

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โœฆ Synopsis

Fresh noir from one of the most intense, congested, and overpopulated cities in the world. Launched with the summer '04 award-winning best seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Brand-new stories by: Lourd De Veyra, Gina Apostol, Budjette Tan & Kajo Baldisimo, F.H. Batacan, Jose Dalisay Jr., Eric Gamalinda, Jessica Hagedorn, Angelo Lacuesta, R. Zamora Linmark, Rosario Cruz-Lucero, Sabina Murray, Jonas Vitman, Marianne Villanueva, and Lysley Tenorio. One of the most populous cities in the world, Manila provides the ideal, torrid setting for noir. It's where the rich rub shoulders with the poor, where five-star hotels coexist with informal settlements, where religious zeal coexists with superstition, where "hospitality" might be another word for prostitution, where politics is often synonymous...

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