But for the Lovers

Nolledo's magnum opus challenges the idea of liberation in this historical novel set in Manila, WWII.

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-621-96757-0-3
Dimensions: 476 pages, 130mm x 180mm x 32mm

Foreword by Gina Apostol
Introduction by Audrey Carpio

First Philippine edition

In But for the Lovers, Hidalgo de Anuncio, a jaded Spanish vaudevillian brings home to Ojos Verdes a girl lost in the streets of Japanese-occupied Manila. With his attendant Molave Amoran—wistful guitarist and thief—the payaso guides his lost crew through the startling grotesqueries and tragedies inside a devastated Manila. Literary critic and writer Caroline Hau describes the book as a “comic but fraught allegory of Spanish, American, and Japanese imperial contest over the Filipino ‘alma’ (soul).” 

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