Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn
2) Manila Noir
Series
Publisher
Akashic
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Travel, history, and a little bit of lore ... Transports you to the Philippines and is filled with riveting and sometimes dark stories of the capital city." -- Glamour For the perfect definition of noir, look no further than Manila. The city itself is like a femme fatale: sexy, complicated, and betrayed. From its fraught colonial history to its present-day incarnation of a teeming metropolis, it is a city of extremes: posh hotels and slums, religious...