She went to college at the University of the Philippines and earned her MA in writing from Johns Hopkins University. Publishers Weekly calls the novel a “pyrotechnical marvel” and named it … Languages mix throughout the text, set in the Marcos Era Philippines, as symbols of fluidity and disorientation. Her other works - particularly Bibliolepsy: A novel (Philippine writers series) (a book that is a lot harder to find but a great read) - have similar qualities, but read this one first for a sense of her top-notch writing. Before her fourth book hit the shelves, Publishers Weekly chose Gina Apostol's Insurrecto as one of the Ten Best Books of 2018. Apostol, who grew up in the Philippines and now lives in the United States, is the author of three previous novels, most recently “Gun Dealers’ Daughter,” her American debut. It is the revision that takes much longer to finish. Winner of the PEN/Open Book Award At university in Manila, young, bookish Soledad Soliman falls in with radical friends, defying her wealthy parents and their society crowd. Winner of the PEN/Open Book Award At university in Manila, young, bookish Soledad Soliman falls in with radical friends, defying her wealthy parents and their society crowd. Drawn in by two romantic young rebels, Sol initiates a conspiracy that quickly spirals out of control. Her other works - particularly Bibliolepsy: A novel (Philippine writers series) (a book that is a lot harder to find but a great read) - have similar qualities, but read this one first for a sense of her top-notch writing. In Gun Dealers’ Daughter, Gina Apostol creates multiple tensions reflecting the relationship between the United States and the Philippines and among different linguistic codes. Apostol is a fearless, stylish writer of substance and her American debut is long overdue.” - Jessica Hagedorn, author of Toxicology Filipino novelist Gina Apostol’s American debut “Gun Dealers’ Daughter” has been earning rave reviews abroad, the latest of which is from the literary and cultural arts magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books. Alex Gilvarry. Gina Apostol’s writing is a substance we couldn’t once get here. Gun Dealers' Daughter is fairly representative of Gina Apostol's poetic, extremely well-crafted style. Gina Apostol is a novelist who was born in Manila, grew up in Tacloban, Leyte, and lives in western Massachusetts and New York City. Gina Apostol's Gun Dealers' Daughter, a stunning novel of the Marcos-era Philippines, is a story of politics and passion, of insurrection and rebellion, of growing up and the consequences of childhood naïvete. Read "Gun Dealers' Daughter: A Novel A Novel" by Gina Apostol available from Rakuten Kobo. “In Gun Dealers’ Daughter, Gina Apostol probes the hard truths of love, nationhood, and exile with crisp intelligence and subtle humor. Gina Apostol won the Philippine National Book Award for her first two novels, Bibliolepsy and The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata.She teaches at Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts. As the fiction of authors like Horatio Castellanos Moya has done for the recent political history of Central and Southern America, Gina Apostol has, with Gun Dealers' Daughter, helped to flesh out a chapter of twentieth century history (including a part of American history) that has often been slanted or suppressed by the powers of vested interest, especially in the United States.
Her third book, Gun Dealers' Daughter, won the 2013 PEN/Open Book Award and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize.
... Apostol has given us a tour de force tale about late 20th century Manila, but Gun Dealers’ Daughter is also a book for our times. Her new novel, Gun Dealers' Daughter, of which this is an excerpt, is out this month from W. W. Norton.She reads Thursday, September 6, with novelist Sabina Murray, at the Asian …
Two of her books, “Raymundo Mata” and “Gun Dealers’ Daughter”, were written in one go, during different summers. Born Gina Lourdes Delgado Apostol, [citation needed] the author was born in Manila and grew up in Tacloban.She was the second of children raised by their artist-mother Virginia.
Her third book, Gun Dealers' Daughter, won the 2013 PEN/Open Book Award and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize.
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