Miguel Syjuco
Autore di Ilustrado
Sull'Autore
Miguel Syjuco is a Philippine author pf the book Illustrado. He will be featured at the Byron Bay Writers' Festival 2015. (Bowker Author Biography)
Opere di Miguel Syjuco
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Syjuco, Miguel
- Data di nascita
- 1976-11-17
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Philippines (birth)
Canada - Nazione (per mappa)
- Philippines
- Luogo di nascita
- Manila, Philippines
- Luogo di residenza
- Philippines
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Istruzione
- Ateneo de Manila University
Columbia University (USA)
University of Adelaide - Attività lavorative
- editor
writer - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Man Asian Literary Prize (2008)
Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature (2008)
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 3
- Utenti
- 583
- Popolarità
- #43,005
- Voto
- 3.1
- Recensioni
- 33
- ISBN
- 36
- Lingue
- 10
Syjuco's story starts with the drowning of expat literary lion Crispin Salvador in the Hudson River. His student, Miguel Syjuco, takes it upon himself to research Salvador in order to track down Salvador's missing and controversial final manuscript, while also seeking an answer as to why Salvador would have reached such an end. The story is told via interleaved snippets from Syjuco's biograpy-in-progress, from Salvador's own work and from a third-person narrator. This seems to be pretty effective; apparently many readers have become convinced that Salvador is a real writer.
The construction of this book is clever and the denouement is well done; you can see why it is admired. Unfortunately there was not a single character in this book that I warmed to, empathised with, or cared about. I guess when a first novel wins a prestigious literary award, one approaches it with high expectations, and this book did not live up to that.… (altro)