The Revolution According To Raymundo Mata Gina Apostol A Novel by Gina Apostol: A Novel 9781641291835, 9781641291842, 9781641292771, 1641291834, 1641291842, 1641292776 instant download after payment.

The first ever US publication of Gina Apostol’s Philippine National Book Award–winning novel.

Raymundo Mata is a nightblind bookworm & a revolutionary in the Philippine war against Spain in 1896. Told in the form of a memoir, the novel traces Mata’s childhood, his education in Manila, his love affairs, & his discovery of the books of the man who becomes the nation’s great hero José Rizal (Rizal, in real life, is executed by the Spaniards for writing two great novels that spark revolution—the Noli Me Tangere & El Filibusterismo. At the time Rizal died, he was working on a third novel, Makamisa).

Raymundo Mata’s autobiography, however, is de-centered by another story: that of the development of the book. In the foreword(s), afterword(s), & footnotes, we see the translator Mimi C. Magsalin (a pseudonym), the rabid nationalist editor Estrella Espejo, & the neo-Freudian psychoanalyst critic Dr. Diwata Drake make multiple readings of the Mata manuscript. Inevitably, clashes between these readings occur throughout the novel, & in the end the reader is on a wild chase to answer enduring questions: Does the manuscript contain Makamisa or is it Makamisa? Are the journals an elaborate hoax? And who is the perpetrator of the textual crime?

Gina Apostol is the author of the novels Insurrecto & Gun Dealers' Daughter. She is the recipient of a PEN/Open Book Award & two Philippine National Book Awards. Her essays & stories have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Foreign Policy, Gettysburg Review, & Massachusetts Review. She lives in New York City & western Massachusetts...