By Miguel Syjuco 384 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $30. A version of this article appears in print on , Page 15 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Paramour in Chief .

NEW YORK, December 2, 2010 – Miguel Syjuco's debut novel Ilustrado, an inventive, daring novel full of politics, jokes, Philippine history and episodes of daily life, thrust him into the literary ...

In Miguel Syjuco’s first novel, Ilustrado, a Filipino writer named Crispin Salvador describes in a fictional interview with The Paris Review how hard it is to capture Manila on the page: ...

I Was the President’s Mistress!! Miguel Syjuco. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30 (384p) ISBN 978-0-374-17405-7 ...

Ilustrado is a postmodern melange – Syjuco has dubbed it “récollage” – of interviews with the fictional Salvador, excerpts from his novels and memoirs, and first- and third-person accounts of the ...

Miguel Syjuco — a Filipino living in Montreal — is a novelist who has used the immigrant’s perspective to explore themes of family and homeland, politics and identity.

Fast-forward 200 years: expatriate Filipino author Miguel Syjuco has put a modern spin on this dated term with his 2008 Man Asia Literary Prize–winning novel Ilustrado. Syjuco’s novel follows ...

Syjuco has remarked of his book, it is “not the Great Philippine Novel,” ironically adding, “I don’t have all the answers. If I did, I’d be running for president.” ...

After being rejected by dozens of agents and publishers, Miguel Syjuco, 33, is emerging as one of this year's most surprising literary Cinderella stories. His novel, "Ilustrado," a postmodern ...

Montreal’s Miguel Syjuco displays the promise and shortcomings of any debut novelist ...

NEW YORK, December 2, 2010 – Miguel Syjuco's debut novel Ilustrado, an inventive, daring novel full of politics, jokes, Philippine history and episodes of daily life, thrust him into the literary ...