About this title: In the 1970s, a young man named Zamora returns home from Yale to the Philippines and discovers an ancient cave-dwelling tribe in the explosive Mindanao region--and is suspected of falsifying his findings on behalf of the repressive government, which wants the area under surveillance. Zamora's story expands to include his relationship with his cook ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Books
Date Published: 10/2003
ISBN-13:9780670884582ISBN:0670884588
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 325 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Books
Date Published: 10/2003
ISBN-13:9780670884582ISBN:0670884588
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 325 p. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780670884582ISBN:0670884588
Description: Good in Good jacket. 84-W-Add Good Condition: A copy that has been read, but remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (including dust cover, if applicable). The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or be an ex-library item. Some pages or dust-jacket may have tiny tears. Ex-library. Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also ... read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 2004-09-28
ISBN-13:9780142001097ISBN:0142001090
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Edition: 1st Edition 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking, New York
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780670884582ISBN:0670884588
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 325 Pages. Measures: 5-3/4" x 8-1/2" Clean, tight copy with no writings or markings. Not an Ex-Library Book or Book Club Edition. Colorfully illustrated dust jacket. Includes 3 parts, and a photograph and a brief biography of the author. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 2003-09-29
ISBN-13:9780670884582ISBN:0670884588
Description: New. A great book in new condition. may show slight signs of shelf wear. We provide USPS confirmation tracking and email when we ship. We want your complete satisfaction. read more
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Pr, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780670884582ISBN:0670884588
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Lower spine bumped, else a fine copy of this first printing. read more
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780670884582ISBN:0670884588
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 0670884588 First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Not ex-Library, no remainder marks, not price clipped. DJ protected with UV resistant, archival safe mylar wrap. Fine copy in Fine DJ. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Viking Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780670884582ISBN:0670884588
Description: Advance uncorrected Proofs. Second novel by the National Book Award nominee. Unread copy with a slight bump at top & foreedge, some small patches of cover delamination. 325 pp. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking, NY
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780670884582ISBN:0670884588
Description: FINE/VG+ First Edition, 1st US Printing. Brand new and unmarked, in a nearly perfect unclipped DJ with a faint glass ring mark on front. 5.75" x 8.5", 325 pages. -A sensual unfolding of culture and a sharp indictment of colonialism. 'Dream Jungle' is the story of a country in crisis that evokes the desperate beauty and rank corruption of the Philippines, from the height of the Marcos era to the end of the 20th-century. read more
"Rizalina is one of my favorite characters of all time. Her story is one of my favorite stories of all time. The way she tells her story is my favorite way of telling one of my favorite stories of all time: in Taglish, simply stated, and through the eyes of an astute and socially vulnerable but incredibly resilient child."
"I finished this a few days ago and still don't quite know what to make of it. The author took two notorious, true incidents in 1970s Filipino history and tied them together into a fictional book. First, she wrote a fictionalized account of the "discovery" of a "Stone Age" tribe in a remote part of the Phillipines in the early 1970s. In real life, this ended up being exposed as a hoax orchestrated by a Harvard-educated, rich Filipino who was tied to Phillipine President Ferdinand Marcos. Marcos used this "discovery" as a way to launder money and retain a sheen of humanitarianism while declaring martial law in his country. However, to this day some still believe that the tribe was legitimate. The author in "Dream Jungle" imagined a situation that would have led a highly educated, rich, and pampered man to imagine and orchestrate a hoax of this magnitude. She also left the resolution on whether it was indeed a hoax up to the reader to decide.
The second incident was the filming of "Apocalypse Now" in the Phillipines in the mid 1970s in the same vicinity where this supposed "lost tribe" was found. The author changed the names of the actors and never identified the film, but it was quite clear what movie and which actors/ people she was writing about.
The problem I had was that these two storylines never melded into any sort of enlightenment. I enjoyed reading both, and Hagedorn used a couple of characters to tie the two stories together (though the reporter seemed like an afterthought) in a somewhat logical way. However, the Stone Age tribe story and the story of the filming of the movie did not reflect each other or complement each other into some greater truth. If you're going to have two entirely separate storylines in one book, I expect that a moral or enlightenment about the human condition or about Filipino society or SOMETHING would come out of their melding that would make me understand why the author felt the need to write about these two disparate subjects in the same work of fiction.
"This is one of those "What the hell just happened?" books. There are more than a few images from the book that have stuck with me through the years for good or ill. An interesting narrative style that, while not new, is used very well to craft the story."
"This is a good "Flippa" book. It's about an ancient lost tribe in the Philippines. It has lots of tagalong vocabulary, but the story can drag a bit. Worth reading, though!"
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