The Betrayed
Author: Reine Arcache Melvin
Format: Paperback, 135mm x 210mm, 464 pages
Published: Europa Editions (UK) Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022
The Betrayed tells the story of two sisters who love the same man. As dictatorship and political upheaval ravage the Philippines, the sister's conflicting passions threaten to lead them to betray not only each other, but all that their father stood for.
Shy, idealistic Pilar initially resolves to carry on her father's fight against the regime, while her flamboyant older sister Lali reacts by marrying the enemy - Arturo, the dictator's godson. Each tries to find their place in this violent world, but can they withstand the corruption of politics and the relentless pull of their own desires?
Taking in the Philippines' troubled history from the Marcos dictatorship to the establishment of the present totalitarian regime, and expertly layering the many aspects of the human condition, The Betrayed is a complex and luminous novel.
Reine Arcache Melvin is a Filipino-American authorwhose works focus on the Philippines and the lives of Filipinosboth at home and abroad. Arcache Melvin's short-storycollection A Normal Life and Other Stories won the NationalBook Award for Fiction in 1999. The Betrayed is herfirst novel.
Author: Reine Arcache Melvin
Format: Paperback, 135mm x 210mm, 464 pages
Published: Europa Editions (UK) Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022
The Betrayed tells the story of two sisters who love the same man. As dictatorship and political upheaval ravage the Philippines, the sister's conflicting passions threaten to lead them to betray not only each other, but all that their father stood for.
Shy, idealistic Pilar initially resolves to carry on her father's fight against the regime, while her flamboyant older sister Lali reacts by marrying the enemy - Arturo, the dictator's godson. Each tries to find their place in this violent world, but can they withstand the corruption of politics and the relentless pull of their own desires?
Taking in the Philippines' troubled history from the Marcos dictatorship to the establishment of the present totalitarian regime, and expertly layering the many aspects of the human condition, The Betrayed is a complex and luminous novel.
Reine Arcache Melvin is a Filipino-American authorwhose works focus on the Philippines and the lives of Filipinosboth at home and abroad. Arcache Melvin's short-storycollection A Normal Life and Other Stories won the NationalBook Award for Fiction in 1999. The Betrayed is herfirst novel.