The Activist by Antonio Enriquez

"The Activist, billed by the University of Santo Tomas Press as a historical novel but “its peculiar gift is that it doesn’t read like one but a suspenseful mystery novel, keeping us well entertained, our eyeballs glued to the pages, but unlike a detective novel unscrambling the oppression and horror of martial law.” The Activist is Enriquez’s fifth novel and the first with a sustained political theme. He has won Palanca awards for short stories and two novels, Surveyors of the Liguasan Marsh (U of Queensland Press, 1981) and Subanons (UP Press, 1999). Two other novels are The Living and the Dead (Giraffe, 1994) and Samboangan: The Cult of War (UP Press, 2006). He has an unpublished historical novel The Survivors and another in progress The Siege of Fort Pillar. He has one non-fiction e-book, Subanon Tales and Oral History (ARE Ruby Books)." -Excerpts from the publisher's website.
A Philippine import. Limited copies available.

Paperback, 249 pages
Published 2011 by University of Santo Tomas Publishing House
ISBN-13: 978-97-1-506578-8
Language: English


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