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Garnering international prizes and acclaim even before its publication, Ilustrado is a daring and inventive debut novel that explores the hidden truths that haunt every family.
Miguel Syjuco's wildly entertaining Ilustrado was the recipient of the 2008 Man Asia Literary Prize. Such awards, as readers know, all too often go to earnest, high-minded, politically correct and rather dull books. In this case, I picture the judges, weary from perusing massive laser-printed works of heart-sinking merit, suddenly rejoicing at the discovery of a manuscript as engaging as this one, absolutely assured in its tone, literary sophistication and satirical humor.
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Danny Fultz
reviewed Ilustrado on September 16, 2010
Ilustrado
Five things about this book:
(1) A good dictionary should be a good companion/reference material. I'm a wide reader, and I think my vocabulary is fair because of the nature of my work, but I thought this book had one flowery word too many. Lots of big words, in my opinion meant more to impress than to express.
(2) I didn't want to read more about the sorry state of my country ~ its politics, economy, poverty, and people. When I picked this book, I thought I had a mystery to read about. Instead, what I got was a rehash of the Philippines' recent political upheavals and dramas.
(3) Confusing, confusing, confusing.
(4) But I definitely loved the stories about Erning Isip, the guy from AMA Computer College, and his life's travails. I couldn't help laughing out loud at Boy Bastos' chronicles, as well.
(5) I thought there were some parts that could have been omitted for being irrelevant.
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