Stay In: Loving the Philippines, warts and all
Book Review Ilustrado By Miguel SyjucoMiguel Syjuco’s Ilustrado is a Filipino novel refreshingly unencumbered by the desire to look like an Amorsolo painting. The Montreal-based winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Palanca Grand Prize avoids exoticizing clichés — “carabaos in rice fields, sunlight the color of mangoes” — that “hyphenated Filipinos” are enamored with.

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