Ghosts of Manila

by James Hamilton-Paterson

Set in the capital city of the Philippines, where groups of people, objects, and even the political system are riddled with fakes. The story opens in a factory near the airport, where body parts of vagrants and victims of death squads are reassembled into human skeletons. Meanwhile, a journalist begins to write an anthropological dissertation, really a piece of fictional scholarship, on amok, a deadly national disorder. Violence. 1994.