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Ilustrado (2010) (edit title/settings)

by Miguel Syjuco (Author) (edit contributors)

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Garnering international prizes and acclaim before its publication, Ilustrado has been called “brilliantly conceived and stylishly executed . . .It is also ceaselessly entertaining, frequently raunchy, and effervescent with humor” (2008 Man Asian Literary Prize panel of judges). It begins... read more

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  • “That period of his life, full of prolificacy but lacking in gravitas, plunged Salvador into a deep depression that made him lash out indiscriminately, though his behavior during both defeat and success had long elicited eager mockery.”
  • “Obsessions that fused us together in our private spiral of frustrated, but very noble, negativity.”
  • “Her room smells innocent, like a girl before fashion magazines turn her into a woman. In one corner sits a Fender Stratocaster.”
  • “And I believe I will one day return to all the places I have loved, and that the world is small and I shall see you again, inevitably.”
  • “The problem is one doesn’t realize what love looks like until you see others who have it, and you realize that you don’t.”
  • “You must learn this while you are still young. Live in the crux of the present. And write to explain the world to yourself and to others. Look forward only to the summer of your first convertible. Look forward only if what’s in front of you is a mirror. Because one day you’ll be so busy looking backward, and everything will feel like winter.”
  • “It will arrive in the post / in weighty packages, tightly wrapped / in knotted twine. / No return address. / Opened, they are empty. / You are already filled / with what it was, / secrets from an old you / to a future self. Regret / is only realizing / The truth too late.”
  • “Photography, child, is about the passing of time. Capturing is the goal of literature. Timelessness is the task of music and painting. But a good photograph holds time just as a vase holds water. The water will evaporate and the vase becomes a memorial to it. What separates a snapshot from a masterpiece is that the latter is a metaphor for patience...”
  • “Kap told Dulcé that he’d know if she betrayed him, because he’d feel it ripple through the airwaves. He’d explain that things like betrayals, lies, even unkind thoughts, send off a shock wave that only those with very sensitive ears and attuned hearts can hear, though every being on earth can feel it, somewhere inside them, even if they don’t know it.”
  • “I tell you, even when you hate your parents, you still end up defending them to the end. It’s a hopeful act more than it is dutiful or conciliatory. The truth is that the disappointment you feel towards your parents testifies to the excess of faith you always had in them.”
  • “How is it possible that I can have such a great connection with someone so quickly and that we can become awkward so quickly as well?”
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When the author's life of literature and exile reached its unscheduled terminus that anonymous February morning, he was close to completing the controversial book we'd all been waiting for.

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  1. Miguel Syjuco (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Country: United States of American
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-374-17478-1
Page Count: 306

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