Monday, December 07 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Asia Society
725 Park Ave, New York, NY 10021
Inspired by the discovery of the Surigao gold treasures, many of which are featured in Asia Society’s current exhibition, this exciting new novel, The Fire Beneath: Tales of Gold tells the gripping story of a poor bulldozer operator who unearths a golden treasure trove during a construction project. In this powerful and insightful new novel, award-winning Filipino-American author, Almira Astudillo Gilles pushes beyond the anticipated tribulations that would inevitably follow unexpected good fortune, as she digs deeper into the contrasts which are unearthed by this extraordinary find: discovery and concealment, greed and generosity, secularization and spirituality.
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