Miguel Syjuco — Ilustrado

London, Picador , 2010. First edition. Cloth. A lovely signed first edition of Miguel Syjuco's debut autobiographical fiction novel. Signed by the author to the title page.The first trade edition, first impression with a complete numberline. Also published as a limited edition.'Ilustrado' is the experimental first novel from Filipino writer Migel Syjuco, opening with the discovery of the body of Crispin Salvador, a controversial figure of Philippine literature. A deeply autobiographical fiction, Salvador's student (named Miguel) investigates the missing manuscript of his final book and charters his trajectory via his poetry, interviews, novels and memoirs.This work won the grand prize of the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize even before it was published. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely with only the slightest lean. The wrap is also lovely. Internally firmly bound with clean and generally bright pages with minimal age toning. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.