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Magdalena.(Book Review)
Magdalena. Cecilia Manguerra Brainard. Austin TX: PlainView, 2002. 164 pages. $15.95 paper.
An anecdotal reference provides one of the blurbs for Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's latest novel, Magdalena. The late Filipino writer N. V. M. Gonzalez, a National Artist for Literature, was supposed to have exclaimed, "I have been looking for a good story about war" after reading Brainard's short story "Winning Hearts and Minds"; the piece eventually became a chapter in Magdalena. Though ostensibly centered on war, Brainard's novel really explores the more personal narratives, love stories, and family secrets of Filipino women from Cebu, the author's own home province in the Philippines, thinly veiled as the town of "Ubec" in Magdalena and much of her other fiction; historical events that form backdrops for the book include the Philippine American War, World War II, the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, and the Vietnam War.
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