Enrico Antiporda
Excerpt from A Light in the Cane Fields by Enrico Antiporda
29/02/08 14:10
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. Mountain
bandits, sugar warlords, Peace Corps volunteers,
dignitaries, and revolutionaries all jostle beneath
"mango-colored" skies in this riveting epic of loss
and transformation, but it is a masterful and
delicate choreography--Publishers Weekly
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