{"product_id":"9780571320158","title":"Ghosts of Manila","description":"\u003cp\u003e'James Hamilton-Paterson's excoriating book would be unbearably painful were it not so beautifully written. The clarity of his vision and the lucid elegance of his prose - lightened by flashes of gallows humour - make this one of the most extraordinary and powerful novels I have read for years.' \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGhosts of Manila\u003c\/i\u003e (first published in 1994) begins in a wasteland near Manila Airport where a small family business works at boiling down the cadavers of police death squad victims and re-assembling them as skeletons for sale to medical students. The novel's urban drama then opens out to bring in burned-out British journalist John Prideaux, archaeologist and diplomat's daughter Ysabella Bastiaan streetwise but rueful policeman Rio Dingca, and Epifania Tigos, who struggles to run a sewing co-operative from within a shantytown. \u003cbr\u003e'It is the author's remarkable achievement that the city, in all its ragged splendour, continues to haunt the mind even after the last page of the book is finished.' \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47171613720816,"sku":"9780571320158","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571320158_p0.jpg?v=1763719294","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571320158","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}