02111nam a22003857a 4500 14579972 OSt 20260618130548.0 061003s2006 ph 000 1 eng 2006327172 9715504914 [paperback] : DLC DLC lcode Alfar, Dean Francis, author. Salamanca / Dean Francis Alfar. Quezon City : Ateneo de Manila University Press, c2006. 159 pages ; illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm. text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier "Winner, 2005 Palanca grand prize for the novel"--Cover. "Dean Alfar's first novel is about the sorcery wrought by love, lust, and literature, by friendship, family, and the Filipino nation. Salamanca streaks across decades and spaces, tracking the stormy relationship between polymorphous-perverse Gaudencio Rivera, whose passions ignite prodigious feats of writing and wandering, and Palawena beauty Jacinta Cordova, whose perfection transmutes walls into glass and adoration into art. Tracing the arc of an imperfect marriage sundered by acts of nature (not least human) and sutured by acts of will (not least nonhuman), and vividly peopled by a multigenerational and multinational cast of kith and kin, this work of imagination takes the reader on a magical excursion into Philippine life and history while setting new standards for the Filipino novel along the way." —Provided by the publisher Adult Brigoli, Darlyne College of Teacher Education Education : English Text in English 7 cbc origode 4 ncip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK Roel [new] 10/23/2025 Gian [edited] 06/17/2026 14549 14549 0 0 ddc 0 0 UCBL_MAIN UCBL_MAIN SUBJ.REF 2025-10-23 899.2103 Al28 2006 3UCBL000020458 2025-10-23 2025-10-23 SRR