Charlson ong biography of william hill
Charlson ong biography of william hill
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An Embarrassment of Riches
Novel by Charlson Ong
For the 1987 book by Simon Schama, see The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age.
An Embarrassment of Riches is a 2000 novel written by Filipino novelist Charlson L.
Ong. A Second Place Philippine Centennial Literary Prize winner, the novel was published in Quezon City, Philippines[2][3] by the Philippine Centennial Commission, the University of the Philippines Press, and the UP Creative Writing Center, in celebration of the one hundred years of Philippine independence from Spain after the Philippine Revolution in 1898.[3] The 425-page novel was written in Philippine English.
It is Charlson Ong’s first novel.[4]
Description
The scenes in An Embarrassment of Riches is set during the mid-1990s, and occurs in a fictional island west of the Philippines, known as the Victorianas.
Victorianas is a "shadow of the Philippines" because it is a develo