Joyce Hor-Chung Lau talks with Miguel Syjuco, whose newest novel, Ilustrado, is “a satire of the chaos and violence of Philippine politics.”
‘My family, my friends, my colleagues — we are the elites,’ he said. ‘We are a wealthy, beautiful country, and we’ve screwed it up so badly. The majority of wealth is controlled by a minority. And we don’t know when enough is enough. The elite don’t want one mansion; they want three.’ – from “An Expatriate Filipino Writes of a Parallel Life,” by Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, The New York Times
‘My family, my friends, my colleagues — we are the elites,’ he said. ‘We are a wealthy, beautiful country, and we’ve screwed it up so badly. The majority of wealth is controlled by a minority. And we don’t know when enough is enough. The elite don’t want one mansion; they want three.’ – from “An Expatriate Filipino Writes of a Parallel Life,” by Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, The New York Times