
The Disinherited
by Han Ong | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0374280754 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0374280754 Global Overview for this book
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When Jesus Caracera's will is read, Roger is stunned to discover that he has been left a small fortune. Unable to live with his inheritance, and now viewed by his countrymen as the representative American (a local tabloid even refers to him as a General Douglas MacArthur look-alike), Roger decides to give his money away. But whom among the millions of needy Filipinos is he to choose.
Traversing high and low in life, societies rank and respectable, and with a cast of characters that includes a slum-dwelling boy hustler, a middle-aged American pederast, a rising Filipino tennis player, a calculating society matron, and a Peace Corps worker turned trophy wife, The Disinherited is an incisive and illuminating exploration of the impulse to do good and the paradoxical harm brought on by largesse.
HAN ONG was born and educated in the Philippines and came to the United Sates as a teenager. He is the author of several critically acclaimed plays and a novel, Fixer Chao. A high school dropout, he is a MacArthur Fellow."