Miguel Syjuco Bücher

Crispin Salvador ist tot. Das Manuskript des großen Enthüllungsromans, in dem er die historischen Verbrechen der herrschenden philippinischen Familien schildern wollte, ist verschwunden. Miguel, Salvadors strebsamer Schüler und der einzig verbliebene Freund, macht sich daran, das Leben seines Mentors aus dessen Romanen, Interviews und Artikeln zu rekonstruieren. Fragmente werden zu Mustern und Geschichten, das Ganze wächst sich zu einem wahren Epos aus. Als Miguel zu Recherchezwecken in sein Heimatland zurückkehrt, wird ihm deutlich, dass er auch auf den Spuren seiner eigenen Geschichte wandelt. 'Die Erleuchteten' erzählt fantasievoll und mit literarischem Witz von einer aus den Fugen geratenen postkolonialen Welt.

First came the Sexy-Sexygate scandal. Then an impeachment trial. Finally, a battle royale for the presidency. At the center of this political typhoon is Vita Nova, the most famous movie star in the Phillippines and a former paramour of the country's most powerful man. Now, for the first time ever, she bares herself completely in a tell-all memoir that puts the sensational in sensationalistic. The setting: a sweating, heaving country. The time: right now. The plot: a drug war rages, an assassin brandishes a pistol, a damsel rises from ashes to power, and a government teeters on the brink. Among the players: a dreamer who boxed and acted his way to the presidency, his Koran-toting nemesis in the senate, a horny bishop, a cowboy turned warlord, a poor little rich boy dying with his dynasty, a washed-up reporter redeemed by one last scoop, a high-school sweetheart driven mad by decades of disappointment, and an American naval officer tempting our heroine with a way out. As Vita warns, viewer discretion is advised. In this masterful and audacious novel, Miguel Syjuco's signature style--hilarious, insightful, playful, provocative--animates thirteen indelible voices whose stories present a cross-section of a complicated society. I Was the President's Mistress!! hurtles headlong into love, politics, faith, history, memory, and the ongoing war over who will tell the stories the world shall know as truth.