Gagamba -- The Spider Man-- a novel by F. Sionil Jose

Name: Gagamba -- The Spider Man-- a novel by F. Sionil Jose
Brand: Solidaridad Publishing House
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By F. Sionil Jose

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WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE? GAGAMBA, the cripple, sells sweepstakes tickets the whole day at the entrace to Camarin, the Ermita restaurant. He sees them all-- the big men, politicians, journalists, generals, landlords, and the handsome call-girls who have made Camarin famous. In mid-July 1990, a killer earthquake struck and entombed all the beautiful people dining at the Camarin. Gagamba could have easily gotten killed -- but he survived the earthquake as do two other lucky people who were buried in the rubble. As told by the Philippines' most widely translated author, this novel raises a fundamental question about life's meaning and suggests at the same time the only rational answer. What they say about F. Sionil Jose: " ...America has no counterpart to Jose -- no one who is simultaneously a prolific novelist, a social and political organizer, an editor and journalist, and a small-scale entrepreneur.. Jose's identity has equipped him to be fully sensitive to his nations miseries without succumbing, like many of his characters, to corruption or despair." -- James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly "...The foremost Filipino novelist in English...his novels deserve a much wider readership than the PHilippines can offer. His major work, the Rosales Saga, can be read as an allegory for the Filipino in search of an identity..." -- Ian Buruma, The New York Review of Books

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Binding:: Paperback
Publication Date:: 2006
Publisher:: Solidaridad Publishing House
Languages:: Published: English
ISBN10:: 971884533X
Weight:: 159 g

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