Manibo, Victor
Entry updated 13 February 2024. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) Filipino lawyer and author, now in US, whose Near Future first novel, The Sleepless (2022), ascribes the eponymous affliction (or benefit) affecting billions of the world's population to a Pandemic. In an America thus affected, lives continue; the protagonist of the tale, an investigative reporter immersed in the Media Landscape, must solve a murder. After change, the reader is able to infer, a battered aftermath sameness is to be expected. [JC]
Victor Manibo
born Manila, Philippines
works
- The Sleepless (New York: Erewhon Books, 2022) [hb/Dana Li]
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