Smaller And Smaller Circles

Smaller And Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan


ISBN
9781616955274
Published
Released
01 / 09 / 2015
Binding
Paperback
Pages
360
Dimensions
139 x 207mm

This harrowing mystery, winner of the Philippine National Book Award, follows two Catholic priests on the hunt for a brutal serial killer in the notorious Payatas dump city of northern Manila. In northeast Manila's Quezon City is a district called Payatas-a 50-acre dump that is home to thousands of people who live off of what they can scavenge there. It is one of the poorest neighborhoods in a city whose law enforcement is already stretched thin, devoid of forensic resources and rife with corruption. So when the eviscerated bodies of teenage boys begin to appear in the dump heaps, there is no one to seek justice on their behalf. In the rainy summer of 1997, two Jesuit priests take the matter of protecting their flock into their own hands. Father Gus Saenz has been a priest for three decades, but he is also a respected forensic anthropologist, one of the few in the Philippines, and has been tapped by the Director of the National Bureau of Investigations as a backup for police efforts. Together with his protege, Father Jerome Lucero, a psychologist, Saenz dedicates himself to tracking down the monster preying on these impoverished boys. Cited as the first Filipino crime novel, Smaller and Smaller Circles is a poetic masterpiece of literary noir, a sensitive depiction of a time and place, and fascinating story about the Catholic Church and its place in its devotees' lives and communities. From the Hardcover edition.
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