"Winner 2017 Palanca Grand prize" - Cover

Replacement for Forty two tales by Edgar Allan Poe (accession number 0039221)

THE QUIET ONES lures you in with a pitch and an opening scene straight from a crime-thriller, or from a really good game of Clue -- a man with a black bag at the airport, trying to escape from the police. But Diaz unleashes even better literary pyrotechnics to make you stay: scintillating prose that, with Drag Queen-like versatility, shifts from time periods to settings to characters to expose the beating heart at the center of each one of its scrappy characters. It excels both as a piece of fiction and as a remarkable text for the social sciences, by rendering visible the cages rendered invisible by the totalizing processes of global capital. The meandering nature of its narrative could easily be mistaken for messiness or a lack of direction -- if it weren't for Diaz's sparkling writing, which packs humor and tenderness, and centuries of colonial/personal baggage in a single scene, sometimes a single line. Note the ending of the chapter entitled SHOOTING, which appears towards the middle of the book, and manages to humanize a peripheral character, explore the falling-out of a college romance, and deal with the national history of armed struggle in ten pages. Ten pages that prove how much of a talented hoe Glenn Diaz is. The book is 384 pages, so it's best to start reading as soon as you can. - publisher's review

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