This book, first published in 2007 and made into a movie in 2011, finds new traction from the context of the appalling events taking place in the Yemen in 2017. An innovative format of journal entries, interview records and newspaper articles, lends a freshness that maintains the momentum of the work, through a story line […]

5 Stars ***** Jose Rizal was not so much a novelist as a revolutionary who fought with a pen. This book is not so much a novel as an incendiary device flung deliberately and accurately into a lake of heated gasoline. I could waste my time and yours expounding its plot or criticising it stylistically. […]