Friday 56 & #BookBeginnings: Cave and Shadows

For Book Beginnings:

THE VISION—a crab on a string being walked by a naked girl—occurred in a deep hotel-corridor twilight and moreover when he, Jack Henson, was feeling himself in a swoon.
- p. 1

For Friday 56:  

"... Well, Alfreda had never been mum about being Filipina; but it wasn't that, it was her being a native that made her extraordinary to her daughter—and God knows what the child meant by the term."

- p. 56

About Cave and Shadows by Nick Joaquin: A classic from National Artist for Literature, Nick Joaquin, Cave and Shadows was first published in 1983, and this literary whodunit is still considered a must-read by students of Philippine Literature. The novel is set in motion by a mysterious death, and thrust onwards by the search for truth and the solution of the crime. Joaquin expertly weaves multi-layered meanings by interspersing Philippine historical fact with fiction. In the end, readers discover faith, truth, and human nature.

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