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Insurrecto

In 1901, Filipino revolutionaries attacked an American garrison in Balangiga, on the island of Samar, and American soldiers created `a howling wilderness` of the surrounding countryside in retaliation, mudering thousands of the inhabitants of Balangiga. In the 1970s, the American filmmaker Ludo Brasi went missing in Samar while shooting a movie, `The Unintended`, inspired by these events. In 2018, his daughter Chiara and the Filipino translator Magsalin go on a road trip in Duterte`s Philippines. Chiara is working on a film about the Balangiga massacre, when Magsalin reads Chiara`s film script and writes her own version of the story. Within the spiralling voices and narrative layers of `Insurrecto` are stories of women – artists, lovers, revolutionaries, daughters – finding their way to their own truths and histories. Using interlocking voices and a kaleidoscopic structure, `Insurrecto` is a startlingly innovative, meditative, and playful novel which twists narrative in the manner of Italo Calvino`s `If On A Winter`s Night`, Julio Cortazar`s `Hopscotch`, and Vladimir Nabokov`s `Pale Fire`. By pushing up against the limits of fiction in order to recover the atrocity in Balangiga, Gina Apostol shows us the dark heart of an untold and forgotten war.

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