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Gina Apostol is the PEN Open Book Award-winning author of Gun Dealers' Daughter, as well as a two-time winner of the National Book Award in the Philippines for her novels Bibliolepsy and The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata. Her short stories have appeared in various anthologies and journals including The Gettysburg Review and the Penguin anthology of Asian American fiction, Charlie Chan Is Dead, Volume 2.
Praise for The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata Winner of 2010 Philippine National Book Award Winner of 2010 Gintong Aklat (Golden Book) Award Gina Apostol's The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata weaves the complex tangle of Philippine history, literature, and languages (along with contemporary academic scholarship) into a brilliant tour de force of a novel. Brava! --John Barth Gina Apostol tells our revolutionary history--or fragments of our history--using a pastiche of writing from the academe, a diary, stories within stories, jokes, puns, allusions, a virtual firecracker of words. Her novel is fearlessly intellectual, anchored firmly on the theories of Jacques Lacan. But it is also funny and witty as it picks--lice, nits, and all--on the hoaxes in our history. It affirms, if it still needs to be affirmed, the power of fiction to shape and reshape the gaps in the narratives of our history as a nation. The main character here is History, and its protagonist, Imagination. For this audacious sword-play of a novel, the National Book Award is given to Gina Apostol's The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata. --Judges' Citation, Philippine National Book Award Highly entertaining . . . The narrative is studded with hilarious argumentative footnotes between an editor, a translator, and a scholar of Mata's work, producing dueling Nabokovian narratives . . . Apostol's unique perspective on facts versus fiction would make for a perfect Charlie Kaufman movie. --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Edward Said wrote that the role of the intellectual is to present alternative narratives on history than those provided by the 'combatants' who claim entitlement to official memory and national identity--who propagate 'heroic anthems sung in order to sweep all before them.' In this fearlessly intellectual novel, Gina Apostol takes on the keepers of official memory and creates a new, atonal anthem that defies single ownership and, in fact, can only be performed by the many--by multiple voices in multiple readings. We may never look at ourselves and our history the same way again. --Eric Gamalinda, author of My Sad Republic
