Cave and Shadows
Edition: First printing in new size
Publisher: Anvil Publishing
Published: 2024
Place of publication: Mandaluyong City, Philippines
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9789712738425
Copyright date: 2018
First sentence: The vision—a crab on a string being walked by a naked girl—occurred in deep hotel-corridor twilight and moreover when he, Jack Henson, was feeling himself in a swoon.
Description: A gripping novel from National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin, *Cave and Shadows* follows a man named Jack Henson, an American expatriate from Davao. Jack never imagined he would ever agree to do a favor for his ex-wife. But when his stepdaughter, Nenita Coogan's body is found naked and lifeless in a locked-down cave, Jack goes undercover to investigate the case and catch the killer.

Set in seedy Manila of the 1970s, *Cave and Shadows* explores the themes of identity and history, corruption and colonialism.
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: viii; label: Part One
title: August in Manila
pagenum: 5; label: Part Two
title: The Cave
pagenum: 38; label: Part Three
title: Among the Manzanos
pagenum: 46; label: Part Four
title: The Hermana
pagenum: 88; label: Part Five
title: Sticks and Stones
pagenum: 98; label: Part Six
title: The Goddess
pagenum: 146; label: Part Seven
title: Death by Water
pagenum: 155; label: Part Eight
title: The Archbishop
pagenum: 187; label: Part Nine
title: Darkness in August
pagenum: 197