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Loading... Angelica's Daughters: A Dugtungan Novelby Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
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A "dugtungan" (collaborative) novel by five established Filipina writers, this is a story about Filipinas with different backgrounds who investigate the history of a common ancestor and along the way deal with their own lack of wisdom and love. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)899.211383Literature Literature of other languages Other Literature: Pacific Islands, Basque, Artificial Languages, Georgia, Mesopotamia Malay and Austronesian languages Philippine languages Tagalog (Filipino) Tagalog fictionLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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However, i felt that the story was rushed. Tess' moving on, Tess' finding a new love, Dina's moving on, Tess and Paolo looking for the church all happened too fast. Here is a novel where time does not heal wounds because they didn't even have time for healing. Everything here is instant. The writing tells you what happens and does not get convey emotion too well. I felt like an outsider because the authors failed to effectively convey the character's feelings.
The family was also too centered on Angelica. Every conversation revolves around her or even if it doesn't her name would eventually pop out of the conversation. Everything happens because of her, everything is compared to her life. They say that she's only a woman but it seems that their life revolves around her. She's long dead, I want to tell them to live their own life.
I just wished that the authors has scraped the whole thing and focused on Angelica's life. I would love to see more of that. Bitin na bitin ako sa kwento ni Angelica. A prequel maybe? :) ( )