Ashura: A Filipino Reckoning
A quest for justice in a nation silenced by fear
In a country riven by death and corruption, unlikely companions come together and risk everything to find a little girl with a secret that can bring down the murderers hiding in plain sight. This is a story of three lives, intertwined by fate and circumstance to speak truth to power amidst the growing stain of extrajudicial killings in modern-day Philippines.
Spanning 3 continents, and 7 cities and 12 months, Ashura weaves together a story of interrupted youth, shared identity amidst brazen politics and the elusive search for justice. The novel traces the invisible thread that binds a growing kinship, navigating between the precipice of death and the threshold of history and love.
The reader is immersed in separate, inner journeys that come together in the bloodstained streets of Metro Manila and Mindanao, the changing corridors of power in Washington, DC, and the darker recesses of Barcelona that lead to an uncertain fate at the International Criminal Court in the Hague. All told, Ashura becomes a shared, unfinished legacy of a benighted nation in search of itself.
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Book Dimensions: 12.7 cm, 1.47 cm, 19.68 cm
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