At night we are dancers : a novel /
Topacio-Aplaon, RM
At night we are dancers : a novel / RM Topacio-Aplaon. - Singapore : Penguin Books, 2021. - 249 pages ;
This novel spanning seven decades documents the life of Tomas Franco “Cocoy” Sabater and his ascent to becoming one of the Philippines’s most callous vigilante assassins. Punctuated by news clippings from different generations, essays and accounts from a perceptive journalist, internal monologues, a short children’s story from a failed novelist, and a lingering homage to ballet and kundiman, the story progresses in a non-linear fashion, conscientiously dissecting Sabater’s tumultuous pursuit of reprisal as he tries to fix his disintegrating relationship with his dying wife and growing daughter.
9789814882996
Assasins--Philippines--Fiction
FICFil T67 2021
At night we are dancers : a novel / RM Topacio-Aplaon. - Singapore : Penguin Books, 2021. - 249 pages ;
This novel spanning seven decades documents the life of Tomas Franco “Cocoy” Sabater and his ascent to becoming one of the Philippines’s most callous vigilante assassins. Punctuated by news clippings from different generations, essays and accounts from a perceptive journalist, internal monologues, a short children’s story from a failed novelist, and a lingering homage to ballet and kundiman, the story progresses in a non-linear fashion, conscientiously dissecting Sabater’s tumultuous pursuit of reprisal as he tries to fix his disintegrating relationship with his dying wife and growing daughter.
9789814882996
Assasins--Philippines--Fiction
FICFil T67 2021