6 best-selling novels books like Insurrecto by Gina Apostol

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Insurrecto

By: Gina Apostol

3.52

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

Histories and personalities collide in this literary tour-de-force about the Philippines' present a…

"It is their country, sergeant. You only hold the keys."

-Gina Apostol, Insurrecto

"It is their country, sergeant. You only hold the keys."

-Gina Apostol, Insurrecto

If you liked the novels plot in Insurrecto by Gina Apostol , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. America Is in the Heart: A Personal History

By: Carlos Bulosan , Carey McWilliams

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

First published in 1946, this autobiography of the well known Filipino poet describes his boyhood i… read more

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  • literature
  • historical
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2. Days in the History of Silence

By: Anne Bruce , Merethe Lindstrøm

3.53

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

Eva and Simon have spent most of their adult lives together. He is a physician and she is a teache… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. A Breath of Life

By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Johnny Lorenz

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creati… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction

4. No-No Boy

By: John Okada

4.33

Format: 242 pages,

John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He attended the University of Washington and Co… read more

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5. A True Novel

By: Juliet Winters Carpenter , Minae Mizumura

3.63

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A remaking of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights set in postwar Japan A True Novelbegins in New York … read more

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6. Gold Boy, Emerald Girl

By: Yiyun Li

4.14

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

In these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li gives us exquisite fiction filled with suspense, depth, and… read more

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7. In the Country

By: Mia Alvar

3.87

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

These nine globe-trotting, unforgettable stories from Mia Alvar, a remarkable new literary talent, … read more

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8. No es un río

By: Selva Almada

3.95

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
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9. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

By: Patricia Evangelista

4.18

Format: 428 pages, Hardcover

A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more

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  • asia
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10. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

By: Cathy Park Hong

4.21

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the trut… read more

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"When I hear the phrase “Asians are next in line to be white,"

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"The avant-garde genealogy could be tracked through stories of bad-boy white artists who “got away with it,"

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are."

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"Hollywood is still so racist against Asians that when there’s a rare Asian extra in a film, I tense up for the chinky joke and relax when there isn’t one."

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

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11. The Piano Tuner

By: Chiang-Sheng Kuo

3.14

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

A widower grieving for his young wife. A piano tuner concealing a lifetime of secrets. An out-of-tu… read more

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  • asia
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Koniec

By: Marta Hermanowicz

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Jeden z najbardziej wyczekiwanych debiutów roku. Metafizyczna, bluźniercza powieść o tragedii wo… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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13. Happy Stories, Mostly

By: Norman Erikson Pasaribu

3.77

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Playful, shape-shifting and emotionally charged, Happy Stories, Mostly is a collection of twelve st… read more

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  • asia
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Shoko's Smile: Stories

By: Choi Eunyoung

3.94

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A bestselling and award-winning debut collection from one of South Korea's most prominent young wri… read more

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  • asia
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"We should distinguish love from affection."

-Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile: Stories

"I wish you the blessing of oblivion, and that you will find the strength to exist moment by moment."

-Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile: Stories

"Film, art in general, only revealed it’s true face to hardworking geniuses, not hardworking mediocrities."

-Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile: Stories

"Time passes, people leave, we become alone again. If we don't accept that fact, memory erodes the present and exhausts the mind until it ages us and ails us."

-Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile: Stories

Cover of Amigo Warfare by Eric Gamalinda

15. Amigo Warfare

By: Eric Gamalinda

3.83

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Eric Gamalinda's Amigo Warfare is a stunning meditation on identity and the ways we connect with ou… read more

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"I'll remember your apocalypse if you'll remember mine It will be a holiday of the senses"

-Eric Gamalinda, Amigo Warfare

"Fuck words, nothing spoken comprehends the defiantly ephemeral. I take my incompleteness with the rest, an exile in any language."

-Eric Gamalinda, Amigo Warfare

"I would like to write a suicide note in three and a half languages and travel south on a Thursday towards some form of life outside of earth"

-Eric Gamalinda, Amigo Warfare

"My angels are jellyfish, electric, nearly invisible, armed with poisoned harpoons. My archangels are yellow tang. They feed on sunlight. They speak through color. Anything in their paths turns blind."

-Eric Gamalinda, Amigo Warfare

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16. De opgang

By: Stefan Hertmans

3.86

Format: 412 pages, Hardcover

In de zomer van 1979 trok een huis in het Gentse Patershol de aandacht van Stefan Hertmans. De blau… read more

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  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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17. The Breaks: An Essay

By: Julietta Singh

4.36

Format: 168 pages, None

A profound meditation on race, inheritance, and queer mothering at the end of the world In a let… read more

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"All we knew of ourselves is that, as mixed bodies, we belonged nowhere and to nothing"

-Julietta Singh, The Breaks: An Essay

"How we are perceived is often misaligned with how we feel, or how we desire to be seen."

-Julietta Singh, The Breaks: An Essay

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18. Black Box

By: Shiori Itō

4.47

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

真実は、ここにある。 なぜ、司法はこれを裁けないのか? レイプ被害を受けたジャーナリストが世に問う、 法と捜査、社会の現状。 尊敬していた人物からの、思いもよらない行為。 しかし、その事実を証明する… read more

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  • asia
"I needed to communicate all of this in my own words, with my own voice. If I waited for someone else to speak out, things would never change."

-Shiori Itō, Black Box

"If I were going to die, there would be time for that later--after doing everything I could and using all that I had to confront the systemic problems that I knew needed to change."

-Shiori Itō, Black Box

"I felt as though everything inside me had been obliterated. However much I tried, however much I wanted to go back to being who I was before, it was impossible--all that was left was an empty husk of…"

-Shiori Itō, Black Box

Cover of Insurrecto by Gina Apostol

19. Insurrecto

By: Gina Apostol

3.52

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

Histories and personalities collide in this literary tour-de-force about the Philippines' present a… read more

Similar categories in Gina Apostol's Insurrecto book and Gina Apostol's Insurrecto

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • historical
  • asia
  • war
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
  • historical fiction
"It is their country, sergeant. You only hold the keys."

-Gina Apostol, Insurrecto

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20. Magiczna rana

By: Dorota Masłowska

3.73

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Długo oczekiwany prozatorski powrót Doroty Masłowskiej Trashowa powieść, która w obłąkańczo zaba… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of Cześć pracy! O kulturze zap***dolu by Zofia Smełka-Leszczyńska

21. Cześć pracy! O kulturze zap***dolu

By: Zofia Smełka-Leszczyńska

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

W tym, jak myślimy i mówimy o pracy, nie ma nic przypadkowego ani oczywistego. Czym właściwie dla n… read more

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Days in the History of Silence

Anne Bruce , Merethe Lindstrøm

3.53

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3.83

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3.95

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3.14

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4.52

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4.27

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3.86

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