INSURRECTO
new novel by the winner of
2013 PEN/Open Book Award
is a finalist for the
2019 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
about
Gina Apostol's fourth novel, Insurrecto, was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, longlisted for the Dublin Impac International Prize, and named by Publishers' Weekly one of the Ten Best Books of 2018. The New York Times calls Insurrecto "a bravura performance...Apostol is a magician with language (think Borges, think Nabokov)...." Her third book, Gun Dealers' Daughter, won the 2013 PEN/Open Book Award and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize. Her first two novels, Bibliolepsy and The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, both won the Juan Laya Prize for the Novel (Philippine National Book Award). Her most recent work uses her research on the Philippine-American War to cast a lens on our contemporary times. She was writer-in-residence at Phillips Exeter Academy and a fellow at Civitella Ranieri in Umbria, Italy, and the Emily Harvey Foundation, among other fellowships. Her essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Foreign Policy, Gettysburg Review, Massachusetts Review, and others. She lives in New York City and western Massachusetts and grew up in Tacloban, Leyte, in the Philippines. She teaches at the Fieldston School in New York City.
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on Insurrecto
Meta-fictional, meta-cinematic, even meta-meta, plunging us into the vortex of memory, history, and war where we can feel what it means to be forgotten, and what it takes to be remembered.
VIET THANH NGUYEN
author of THE SYMPATHIZER
On Gun Dealers' Daughter
Not only does this novel make an argument for social revolution, it makes an argument for the role of literature in revolution—the argument being that literature can be revolution.
PEN/Open Book Award
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