The Fireflies of Guiuan - Cortés, Carlos
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Shortly after joining Aguinaldo's army as a young medic, José R. Lugay greets his country's independence from Spain with bright dreams of the future. He marries his childhood sweetheart. Only a few months later, the dogs of war rip his dreams to tatters. A harrowing year with the defenders in the Philippine-American War follows. After the war is lost, he spends five years seeking lucrative employment as a doctor in Manila, without much success. Did his refusal to pledge allegiance to the new colonizer affect his prospects? He accepts a post as a country doctor in Guiuan, Samar, a remote town…mehr

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Shortly after joining Aguinaldo's army as a young medic, José R. Lugay greets his country's independence from Spain with bright dreams of the future. He marries his childhood sweetheart. Only a few months later, the dogs of war rip his dreams to tatters. A harrowing year with the defenders in the Philippine-American War follows. After the war is lost, he spends five years seeking lucrative employment as a doctor in Manila, without much success. Did his refusal to pledge allegiance to the new colonizer affect his prospects? He accepts a post as a country doctor in Guiuan, Samar, a remote town in the country's most depressed province. Ten years of a hardscrabble life there seem about to be followed by ten more. Then the Warays choose him to fill one of Samar's three seats in the country's House of Representatives. His return to Manila as a distinguished Congressman must be the peak of his career, but two terms as a legislator leave him wondering if it isn't actually a diversion from his true calling. Should he stay in the House, or run for the Senate, or become the eminent Manila doctor he had once aspired to be?
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Carlos Cortés y Basa has worked as a radio disc jockey, a newspaper stringer, a shampoo salesman, a pizza delivery boy, a forklift operator, an airline ground employee, and a call center agent. His previous books are a novel, Longitude, published by the University of the Philippines Press in Diliman, Quezon City, and a short story collection, Lassitude, published by Anvil Publishing in Pasig City. The latter won a National Book Award in the Philippines. His short stories have appeared in various magazines and anthologies in the Philippines. A graduate of the University of San Carlos in Cebu City, he has attended the writers' workshops at Silliman University in Dumaguete, and at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City. He lives in Mandaue in Cebu.