New York: Norton, (1988.). First edition - A novel of life in the Philippines, by this controversial and respected writer who became a political exile in New York in the 1970's, set during the reign of Marcos, "a time of enormous wealth and crushing poverty.. . With a spellbinding mixture of the fabulous and the terrifying, Rosca illuminates the culture, and the soul, of a nation in turmoil." 384 pp.