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245	1		_aSmaller and smaller circles / _cF H. Batacan.
100			_aBatacan, F.H.
260			_aNew York, NY : _bSoho Press, _cc2015.
300			_a357 pages:
300			_c19 cm
500			_a"Portions of this book were previously published in a novella form in the Philippines in 2002 by the University of the Philippines Press"--Title page verso.
020			_a9781616958701
650			_aCatholic Church _vFICTION
650			_aTeenage boys _xCrimes against _vFICTION
650			_aSerial murder investigation _vFICTION
650			_aPriests _vFICTION
650			_aForensic anthropologists _vFICTION
653			_aPayatas (Philippines) _vFiction; Quezon City (Philippines) _vFiction
944			_aFIL
050			_a823.92 B32s c2015
943			_b0 _c0 _d1 _e1 _f0 _g0 _h0 _i0 _j0
944			_b1 _c1 _d0
953			_pSH0485
546			_ain English
953			_cSenior High School Library
520			_a"This harrowing murder mystery, winner of the Philippine National Book Award, follows two Catholic priests on the hunt for a serial killer in the notorious Payatas dump city of northern Manila. 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. In the rainy summer of 1997, two Jesuit priests take the matter of protecting their flock into their own hands. Father Gus Saenz has been a priest for three decades, but he is also a respected forensic anthropologist, one of the few in the Philippines, and has been tapped by the Director of the National Bureau of Investigations as a backup for police efforts. Together with his protege, Father Jerome Lucero, a psychologist, Saenz dedicates himself to tracking down the monster preying on these impoverished boys. Cited as the first Filipino crime novel, Smaller and Smaller Circles is a poetic masterpiece of literary noir, a sensitive depiction of a time and place, and fascinating story about the Catholic Church and its place in its devotees` lives and communities"-- "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. In the rainy summer of 1997, two Jesuit priests take the matter of protecting their flock into their own hands. Father Gus Saenz has been a priest for three decades, but he is also a respected forensic anthropologist, one of the few in the Philippines, and has been tapped by the Director of the National Bureau of Investigations as a backup for police efforts. Together with his protege, Father Jerome Lucero, a psychologist, Saenz dedicates himself to tracking down the monster preying on these impoverished boys. Cited as the first Filipino crime novel, Smaller and Smaller Circles is a poetic masterpiece of literary noir, a sensitive depiction of a time and place, and fascinating story about the Catholic Church and its place in its devotees` lives and communities"--
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336			_atext
337			_aunmediated
338			_avolume
942			_2lcc _cBK _ajderpo _b2021-12-14 16:43:58 _djderpo _e2022-01-19 10:05:31
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