Ghosts of Manila (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: James Hamilton-Paterson
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1993
- Setting: Manila, the Philippines
- Principal Characters: John Prideaux, Inspector Gregorio Dingca, Epifania Tugos, Edsel “Eddie” Tugos, Vic Agusan, Ysabella Bastiaan, Sharon Polick, Father Nicomedes Herrera, Lettie Tan
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Journalism or journalists, Crime or criminals, Prostitution or prostitutes, Poetry or poets, Violence, Fire, Southeast Asia, Archaeology or archaeologists, Excavations
- Locales: Manila, Philippines
James Hamilton-Paterson is a former journalist who writes novels like a poet. He has published two books of poetry and won the Newdigate Prize for poetry from Oxford University, his alma mater, in 1964. He worked as a free-lance journalist and for The Times Literary Supplement and New Statesman from 1968 to 1974. He was born in England but has chosen to live in foreign lands—mostly in the Philippines and Tuscany—for much of his adult life.
Ghosts of Manila, his thirteenth published work, reads more like a poetic travelogue than a novel. The slow-paced...
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