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January 2017: Foreign Literature
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Smaller and Smaller Circles - F.H. Batacan (4 stars)
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Glad you enjoyed this! It's being made into a movie I believe. Did you read the updated version? The original one is much shorter, the later one had more stuff added to it.
annapi wrote: "Glad you enjoyed this! It's being made into a movie I believe. Did you read the updated version? The original one is much shorter, the later one had more stuff added to it."I think it is the later version. I bought the kindle edition after I read your review a few months ago. Thanks so much for bringing it to my attention. I think it would make a great movie. Saenz and Lucero would be great characters for it.
4 stars
When the mutilated body of an adolescent boy is found in the garbage fields northeast of Manila’s Quezon City, two Jesuit priests (one a forensic anthropologist and the other a psychologist) are asked to help find the killer. I enjoyed reading this Filipino mystery. The two priests are great characters and I enjoyed reading about another culture. Although the different cultural institutions (police, politicians, the church, etc.) are full of corruption and power hungry individuals, there were good people in all of them too who gave the reader hope for the future of the community that the story takes place in. The mystery was interesting, although the answers were not too surprising. If the author every wrote another novel featuring these characters I would definitely read it.