5 award-winning Filipino novels that’ll make for cool films (or series) | via scoutmagph
Family drama? Skeletons in the closet? The perils of high society? Check, check, and check. While it has already graced, Vicente Groyon’s Palanca-winning “The Sky Over Dimas” has all of the ingredients that make for an intrigue-filled, thought-provoking film or your HBO series of the month.
In the OG novel, a man named Raffy is compelled to rush home to Bacolod in the hopes of stopping his mentally ill father from further disgracing their family, the hacienderos of the Torrecarion and Jarabas clans. The trip back home proves to be even less than ideal when he soon unravels the dark generational secrets that plague his once illustrious family, tracing back to his ancestors’ seedy past.
It’s a thriller of sorts, along with commentary on globalization and the BPO industry. But in text, “The Quiet Ones” is a highlighted by lyrical prose and lively dialogue—which could make for an interesting IRL translation.Philippine lit is filled with A+ crime fiction worthy of the screen, especially if we’re going by the example of F.H. Batacan’sCharlson Ong’s college class staple is one of ’em, which begins when a 25-year-old lounge singer is found dead in her room above a bar in Binondo. Filipino-Chinese detective Cyrus Ledesma is tasked to solve it, which leads him to the sketchy bar owner—a.k.a.
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