000			02111nam a22003857a 4500
001			14579972
003			OSt
005			20260618130548.0
008			061003s2006 ph 000 1 eng
010			_a 2006327172
020			_a9715504914 [paperback] :
040			_aDLC _cDLC
042			_alcode
100	1		_aAlfar, Dean Francis, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aSalamanca / _cDean Francis Alfar.
260			_aQuezon City : _bAteneo de Manila University Press, _cc2006.
300			_a159 pages ; _billustrations (black and white) ; _c20 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
500			_a"Winner, 2005 Palanca grand prize for the novel"--Cover.
520			_a"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
521			_aAdult
541			_xBrigoli, Darlyne _yCollege of Teacher Education _zEducation : English
546			_aText in English
906			_a7 _bcbc _corigode _d4 _encip _f20 _gy-gencatlg
942			_2ddc _cBK
998			_cRoel [new] _d10/23/2025
998			_cGian [edited] _d06/17/2026
999			_c14549 _d14549