G189 E-Reading: Book Review of A Light in the Cane Fields by Enrico Antiporda
Name of Book: A Light in the Cane Fields Author: Enrico Antiporda ISBN: 9781434881557 Publisher: Createspace Type of book: Phillipines, History, 1960s, guerilla, politics, Asia, tropics, sibling reationship, wealth, secrets Year it was published: 2013 Summary: Top Semi finalist, 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Manuscript Review from Publisher's Weekly "This coming-of-age story chronicling a Filipino boy's wrenching passage from son of privilege to guerilla fighter is a stylistic tour-de-force. From its first lines, the saga of Jando Flores seizes readers with the same chilling intensity as the cold water that wraps around Jando's chest as he hides in a river to escape a gang of pillaging cutthroats. While such murderous militias dispossess cane farmers in the Central Plains of the Philippines, the NPA (a brutal leftist insurgency) combats the government troops of Ferdinand Marcos and the ruthless sugar barons who steal ...