00000nam a2200000 i 4500 UP-1686042739784888460 Buklod 20240927174040.0 m | | | ta 240927s2021||||ph rb |000 f|eng d 9786214481422 22373068 BC-74904 SERV Enterprises Php888.00 Department of Language, Literature, and the Arts BAG rda eng PS 9993 G152 M9 2021 Gamalinda, Eric 1956- author. My sad republic Eric Gamalinda. Twentieth anniversary edition. Quezon City, Philippines Bughaw, an imprint of Ateneo De Manila University Press [2021] 390 pages 21 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-390) Chapter One: In the Year of Prophets and Antichrists -- Chapter Two: The Girl with 117 Names -- Chapter Three: Verdi -- Chapter Four: Sorrowful Mysteries -- Chapter Five: The Disappeared -- Chapter Six: Paradise of the Damned -- Chapter Seven: Sorrowful Mysteries -- Chapter Eight: Desolation -- Chapter Nine: A Wedding -- Chapter Ten: A Satanic Document -- Chapter Eleven: Typhoon -- Chapter Twelve: In the Year of Miracles -- Chapter Thirteen: In Exile -- Chapter Fourteen: Felipe -- Chapter Fifteen: The Pope -- Chapter Sixteen: Desolation -- Chapter Seventeen: The Immortals -- Chapter Eighteen: Invisible -- Chapter Nineteen: Desolation -- Chapter Twenty: In the Year of the Apocalypse. Winner of the Philippine Centennial Literary Award in 1998 and first published in 2000, My Sad Republic is a story of love and loss, obsession and revolution. Set against the epic backdrop of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent war between the United States and the Philippines, it is loosely based on the life of Dionisio Magbuela, also known as Isio, or “The Pope.” One of several leaders of millenarian movements across the archipelago, he rose to legend during a time of immense social and cultural change in the country, where the Spaniards had kept many islands under the spell of sixteenth-century superstition. It was a time that would be pivotal in the history not only of the Philippines, but also the United States, which was on the brink of becoming the next global empire. Blending actual historical sources, folklore, and native ritual, the novel narrates the impact of these upheavals on the lives of several characters whose destinies are altered by a nation about to be born, and its repercussions which linger to this day. Philippine fiction (English) FI UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN PS 9993 G152 M9 2021 Book