{"product_id":"the-revolution-according-to-raymundo-mata-paperback","title":"The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGina Apostol\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRevealing glimpses of the Philippine Revolution and the Filipino writer Jose Rizal emerge despite the worst efforts of feuding academics in Apostol's hilariously erudite novel, which won the Philippine National Book Award.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGina Apostol's riotous second novel takes the form of a memoir by one Raymundo Mata, a half-blind bookworm and revolutionary, tracing his childhood, his education in Manila, his love affairs, and his discovery of writer and fellow revolutionary, Jose Rizal. Mata's 19th-century story is complicated by present-day foreword(s), afterword(s), and footnotes from three fiercely quarrelsome and comic voices: a nationalist editor, a neo-Freudian psychoanalyst critic, and a translator, Mimi C. Magsalin. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn telling the contested and fragmentary story of Mata, Apostol finds new ways to depict the violence of the Spanish colonial era, and to reimagine the nation's great writer, Jose Rizal, who was executed by the Spanish for his revolutionary activities, and is considered by many to be the father of Philippine independence. \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Revolution According to Raymundo Mata\u003c\/i\u003e offers an intoxicating blend of fact and fiction, uncovering lost histories while building dazzling, anarchic modes of narrative.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGina Apostol is the PEN Open Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eGun Dealers' Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a two-time winner of the National Book Award in the Philippines for her novels\u003ci\u003e Bibliolepsy \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Revolution According to Raymundo Mata.\u003c\/i\u003e Her short stories have appeared in various anthologies and journals including \u003ci\u003eThe Gettysburg Review\u003c\/i\u003e and the Penguin anthology of Asian American fiction, \u003ci\u003eCharlie Chan Is Dead, Volume 2\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 360\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.2 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 30, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767706779936,"sku":"9781641293150","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1f0f96d5ff2ef1f76fc988596518e3ac.webp?v=1780315832","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-revolution-according-to-raymundo-mata-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}