The book is a mix of political thriller, a meditation on history and colonialism, and an often wry observation of modern Filipino society, as well as an account of one woman’s search for identity. In her newest book, “The Human Zoo,” Murray, who teaches in the MFA program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, explores another aspect of history, this time in the Philippines, where centuries of Spanish and American colonialism, a multiethnic population, and now a brutal dictatorship create the backdrop for a story set in modern-day Manila. Sabina Murray’s previous novel, the New York Times Notable Book “Valiant Gentlemen,” was an ambitious and meaty historical novel about Roger Casement and Herbert Ward, former African explorers from late 19th- and early 20th-century England whose friendship shattered over the issue of Irish nationalism.
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