Assembling Alice by Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta - ISBN: 9789814954105
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Love, war, and secrets: A journalist’s fight for survival in Manila.

Assembling Alice

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    240 pages

  • Release Date

    26 October 2021

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Summary

A young female journalist in pre-war Manila joins a secret resistance movement against the Japanese. When the war breaks out, she stands to lose everything.

Before and after the Battle of Manila, a Japanese spy and an American soldier have one thing in common: they both fall in love with Alice Feria, a pianist who would later become one of the first women journalists in the Philippines. Both would prove to be instrumental to her survival during the Japanese occupation and the liberati…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9789814954105
ISBN-10:9814954101
Author:Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta
Publisher:Penguin Random House SEA
Imprint:Penguin Random House SEA
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:26 October 2021
Weight:240g
Dimensions:197mm x 131mm x 16mm
About The Author

Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta

Mookie KATIGBAK-LACUESTA is the author of four poetry collections- The Proxy Eros (2008), Burning Houses (2013), Hush Harbor (2017), and Eros Redux (2019). She obtained an MFA from the New School University in 2004, and has since taught in major universities in Manila. Katigbak-Lacuesta has also co-edited various literary Filipino poetry anthologies for the Cordite Poetry Review and Vagabond Press. In 2019, she co-edited The Achieve Of, The Mastery, a survey of contemporary Philippine Poetry in English, with Dr. Gemino Abad. Widely-awarded for her work in the Philippines, Katigbak-Lacuesta has also been the Filipino delegate to international literary festivals in Rotterdam, Medellin, San Francisco, Macau, and Kuala Lumpur. In 2015, she completed a writing residency for the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

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