Esperanza Street [electronic resource]
Niyati Keni2015
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"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.
Main title:
Esperanza Street [electronic resource] / Niyati Keni
Author:
Niyati Keni, Author
Imprint:
London United Kingdom : And Other Stories, 2015
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (1189515.0 Bytes)
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781908276490
Language:
English
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BRN:
452081
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