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Literature · novel
Surveyors of the Liguasan Marsh
- Publisher
- University of Queensland Press
- Year
- 1981Reissued as Green Sanctuary, Giraffe Books, 2003
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 124
- ISBN
- 9780702215339
- Availability
- Out of print
No longer sold new: look for it in a library, or for a used copy.
About the book
Enriquez’s first novel, set among land surveyors in the Liguasan Marsh of Maguindanao, country he knew as a young man. First published in Australia, it was reissued in the Philippines in 2003 as Green Sanctuary.
This is the first novel of Antonio R. Enriquez, a Zamboanga-born writer in English. It grew out of his short story "The Surveyor", first printed in the Philippines Free Press and set in Cotabato. A revised version of that story became a chapter of the novel.
The University of Queensland Press in Australia published the novel in 1981, as volume 16 of its Asian and Pacific Writing series. It won Enriquez the first of his 2 Palanca grand prizes for the novel. Writing in the Philippine Star, a fellow Zamboanga writer called it "sui generis, post-modern fiction" that "defies realistic convention, but remains compellingly and hauntingly real". He also saw it as early Enriquez, before martial law turned his later fiction toward advocacy.
A revised edition was printed in Cagayan de Oro in 1991. The book was later reissued as Green Sanctuary.
Cover from Open Library, shown to identify the book; its rights stay with the publisher.
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