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The
2005 Award
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The Builder by Edith L. Tiempo
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| Professor
Felix Acuna, physics teacher at Dumaguete University, is a busy man. Awaiting
the birth of his firstborn, building a family home, urging his students
to speed up their work , he must also take responsibility for the school
administrator's middling son. Then as he ends his physics class one morning
he is jolted into the daylight violence across the street . Suddenly his life takes on a detective purpose. Now he must go in pursuit of an enigmatic outlaw and two purloined documents in an attempt to solve an unsettling domestic crime. The Builder assembles a cast of indomitable characters, alive with wit, cleverness and sudden unexpected depths. This work is full of surprises and moral ambiguities- a meditation on the human yearning for rootedness. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Edith L. Tiempo, Philippine National Artist for Literature, directs the National Writers Workshop established by her and her husband in 1962. She writes poetry and fiction, literary criticism, and textbooks in literature. Edith L. Tiempo earned an M.A. in English from the University of Iowa and a PhD in English and Literature from the University of Denver. Among her awards is the Gawad Tanglaw ng Lahi from the Ateneo de Manila University. She is also the first Elisabeth Luce Moore distinguished Asian Professor. She is based in Dumaguete City and Montemar, Sibulan on Negros Island. |
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