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Esperanza Street, May 1981; Spanish Colonial Architecture; Rice and Chocolate; Stevedores; A House on Wheels; Snapshots; A View of Prosperidad; Girl in the Hatch of a Sari-Sari Store; Hen-Coops and Fish Baskets; Village Girl; Girl under a Yellow Bell Tree; A Ride through the Backcountry; Street Vendors; Halo-Halo Special; Bobble-Headed Jesus; Two Priests; The Best Coffee on the Island; Barefoot Midwife; Mother and Child; Portraits; Pearls; View from the Headland; A Badly Placed Urn; Sea Blue, Blood Red; A Lighted Window; Soil and Sand; Barkada; Girls with Jasmine Braids; Filipino Delicacies. |
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Acrylic on Rice SacksYellow Balloons, Blue Sky; Knots; Street Barbers; Cockroaches; Woman with Rosary; Psychic Surgery; Night Scene at the Jetty; Faces at a Vigil; Man with Bolo; Assemblage; Bumper Stickers; Cutwork; Oleander in Bloom; Esperanza Street, October 1981; Subscribers; About the Author; Colophon; Current and Upcoming Books; Note to the Reader; Acknowledgements. |
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"I was eight when my father brought me to one of the big houses at the top of Esperanza Street and left me with Mary Morelos. 'I haven't the time to fix broken wings, ' she said. 'Does he have any trouble with discipline?' My father glanced at me before answering." So begins the story of Joseph, houseboy to the once-wealthy Mary Morelos, who lives in the three-storey Spanish colonial house at the top of Esperanza Street. Through Joseph's eyes we witness the destruction of the community to which they are both, in their own way, bound. Set in a port town in the Philippines, Niyati Keni's evocative and richly populated debut novel is about criminality under the guise of progress, freedom or the illusion of it, and about how the choices we make are ultimately the real measure of who we are. |
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Household employees -- Fiction.
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Social change -- Philippines -- Fiction.
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Boys -- Fiction.
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Boys. |
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Household employees. |
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Social change. |
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Philippines -- Fiction.
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Philippines. |
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9781908276490 : $8.99 |
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1908276495 : $8.99 |
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