Syjuco, Miguel: Ilustrado. First Edition/First Printing. *Signed & Numbered*

This is a first edition and first printing of Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco, published by Picador in 2010.

The book and protected dust jacket are in Fine condition with no inscriptions and not price clipped.

Signed and numbered, this being number 249 of only 250 copies.

Description: 

It begins with a body. On a clear day in winter, the battered corpse of Crispin Salvador is pulled from the Hudson River – taken from the world is the controversial lion of Philippine literature. Missing, too, is the only manuscript of his final book – meant to rescue him from obscurity by exposing the corrupt roots of power behind the Filipino ruling families. His student, Miguel, investigates, journeying home from a city still in shock from terrorist attacks to a country caught between reckless decay and desperate progress. To understand his mentor’s death, Miguel scours the life, charting Salvador’s trajectory via his poetry, stories, interviews, novels, and memoirs. The literary fragments become patterns become stories become epic: a generations-long saga of revolution, familial duty, political intrigue, and a people’s enduring struggle against their own worst tendencies. This is a clever, bravura, and exuberant debut novel from a new literary sensation. 

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