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Smaller and Smaller Circles

Smaller and Smaller Circles

Author(s): F H Batacan

Location(s): Quezon City

Genre(s): Crime

Era(s): Current

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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.

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F.H. Batacan’s detective novel is considered first of its kind in the local literary scene. Batacan’s work has won her three notable literary awards: The Palanca Grand Prize in 1999, National Book Award in...

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Thriller set in Manila (‘there are no serial killers in the Philippines…’)

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Published in English in September 2015 – 13 years after its first truncated appearance in the Philippines – Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan is, to use an overworked phrase, a ‘noir’ thriller with an original Filipino twist. It is also...

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