But for the Lovers

Originally Published

1970

He was beginning to eat flowers and the crescent moon was in his eyes when he awoke again.

Nolledo’s magnum opus plunges its readers into the heart of WWII Manila on the brink of “liberation” as lived through its sundry cast of characters, their experiences painting a totalizing and critical portrait of the country at its most vulnerable state.

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 978-621-96757-0-3

Dimensions: 476 pages, 130mm x 180mm x 32mm

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Foreword by Gina Apostol

Introduction by Audrey Carpio

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First Philippine edition

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“The book is a marvel. It cuts no corners. It knows its purpose. Like the best of our Filipino novels, like Noli Me Tangere,it issui generis:it comes seemingly from nowhere to speak an experience of trauma unspeakably Filipino. It marks its ambition by its existence. And line after line, page after page, for me, it was also sheer fun— rereading it, every day I took the book up with an almost giddy, comforted pleasure— the comfort of reading a book that does exactly what its imagination requires and its truth demands.”

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Gina Apostol

“Exploding Galaxies’ Philippine edition marks the triumphant, albeit posthumous, return of this prodigiously gifted native who has given his name to a vital period of literary experimentation and political ferment in the 1960s and continues to inspire generations of writers, Filipino and otherwise.”

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Caroline Hau

“Wilfrido Nolledo’s But For the Lovers… is a fearless—and fearsome—book, its author’s eyes wide open and imagination at full throttle, a genuine masterpiece…”

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Robert Coover