The survivors / Antonio Reyes Enriquez
By: Enriquez, Antonio Reyes
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España, Manila, Philippines : University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, ©2011España, Manila, Philippines : University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, ©2011Description: 151 p. ; 23 cm.Content type: text ISBN: 9789715066082.Subject(s): Philippine fiction (English) | Jungle survival | Cannibalism | World war, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives | Philippines -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945DDC classification: /En72 Summary: Set in Zamboanga at the height of World War II. This novel casts a different light on the horrors of war by transplanting a colorful cast of characters -- men, women and children, civilians, politicians and soldiers, Filipinos, indigenous people and Japanese -- from common scenes of razed villages, bloody trenches, and blitzkrieg skies to a vast and unknown forest, in which they face the dangers of the jungle, Japanese atrocities, U.S. air raids, starvation and cannibalism, and strange half-human, half animal creatures: the river people and the cliff-dwellers. Toeing the line between morality and monstrosity, savagery and survival, they learn what it means to love and to forgive -- and ultimately, to be human -- in dark and trying times.
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Set in Zamboanga at the height of World War II. This novel casts a different light on the horrors of war by transplanting a colorful cast of characters -- men, women and children, civilians, politicians and soldiers, Filipinos, indigenous people and Japanese -- from common scenes of razed villages, bloody trenches, and blitzkrieg skies to a vast and unknown forest, in which they face the dangers of the jungle, Japanese atrocities, U.S. air raids, starvation and cannibalism, and strange half-human, half animal creatures: the river people and the cliff-dwellers. Toeing the line between morality and monstrosity, savagery and survival, they learn what it means to love and to forgive -- and ultimately, to be human -- in dark and trying times.
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