Title: Heavy on Atmospherics, Light on Understanding
Product review: Having lived on Negros for a couple of years, I think that Berlow didn't understand much of what may have really been going on in the incident he describes. The provinces are very different from Manila. I got more of a sense of the author's dread and foreboding than much insight into what really happened, or into the cultural, political and economic background to the murders.James Hamilton-Paterson writes much more insightful books about the Philippines.
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