Historical fiction
Agueda: A Ballad of Stone and Wind
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Harper?s exhilarating debut novel is set during the transition period from Spanish to American colonization. It sweeps the reader through the life of the title character from her girlhood in a convent to her rise to becoming the quintessential example of a Filipina during those turbulent eras. The exquisite recounting of her story leaves the reader on the edge with thirst and nostalgic hunger to discover the country?s milieu and to become part of the lives of the novel?s well-developed characters.
Publisher: Anna Maria L. Harper, or Bambi as she is more familiarly known, studied at the Assumption Convent as it was then called and went on to graduate studies at the Ateneo de Manila and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where she earned a Masters degree in English Literature. Her column in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, ?Sense & Sensibility,? on Filipino customs, traditions, and history was based on research and archival sources, which resulted in the background for her first novel. Harper has four children and three grandchildren. Her other works include Sta. Cruz Church: A Living Heritage (UST Publishing House, 2004), introductory essays for Unilever books Pasig: River of Life (2000), and Laguna de Bay (2002), for Agencia Espa?ola de Cooperacion?s Manila (2000). She has contributed essays on midlife crisis, comfort foods, and collectors? insanities for Anvil?s Life on the Cusp (2003), Comfort Foods (2003), and Consuming Passions (2003), respectively.
Year: 2013
Category: Fiction - Novel
Language: English
Pages count: 262
Word count: 98307
Dimensions: 14.5 x 22.5cm
ISBN: 978-971-506-668-6
Keywords: "Colonial Manila, Social life and customs, Fiction"
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