Esperanza Street
A Fiction book. The first third is fantastic--it reminded me of Perec's Life: A User's Manual in...
I was eight when my father brought me to one of the big houses at the top of Esperanza Street and left me with Mary Morelos. ‘I haven’t the time to fix broken wings,’ she said. ‘Does he have any trouble with discipline?’ My father glanced at me before answering.So begins the story of Joseph, houseboy to the once-wealthy Mary Morelos, who lives in the three-storey Spanish colonial house at the top of Esperanza Street. Through Joseph’s eyes we witness the destruction of the community to which they are both, in their own way, bound. Set in a port town in the Philippines, Niyati Keni’s evocative and richly populated debut novel is about criminality under the guise of progress, freedom or the illusion of it, and about how the choices we make are ultimately the real measure of who we are.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 320 pages
- ISBN: 9781908276483 / 1908276487
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This is a coming of age tale set in a port town in the Philippines. It follows the lives of those who live and work on Esperanza Street, which runs from the sea, a fairly poor port area, uphill to more affluent homes. Joseph works as a houseboy for Mary Morelos, a widow whose own two sons are close to him in age, so he exists in an... Fun but useless fact: I picked this up while at the library b/c it had a cool cover, and took it home because it seemed at first glance like a Filipino version of Oscar Wao. It ended up being less about the wildness of pubescence and more of a beautiful rendering of a Filipino barrio and its inhabitants. Surprisingly, it also offered... The first third is fantastic--it reminded me of Perec's Life: A User's Manual in the way it seemed more concerned with populating a fictional location than creating a plot, almost every chapter a short, colourful and somewhat melancholy introduction to one of the denizens of Esperanza Street (the curandero, the priestess, the head stevedore,...
