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I first came across Mateo García Elizondo in the Grantaissue featuring the Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists; the compilation included his short story ‘Capsule’, about a man subjected to life-long, unbearable suffering in an absurd, dystopian penitentiary system. Struggling to find their way in unwelcoming environments, from outer space to the famously liminal city of Tijuana,García Elizondo’s characters are often those who are marginalised, those we don’t even bother taking pity in, those who quietly tell their story while the world refuses to listen. With empathy but without sentimentality, García Elizondo grants the reader a privileged insight in the mind of his protagonists.
How to escape the eternal, unbearable present is one of the questions guiding the protagonist in García Elizondo’s debut novel, evocatively titled Una cita con la Lady, which follows a drug addict who is ready to leave the world of the living behind. Tired of losing and hoping never to retur • Christianity is the predominant religion in the Philippines,[1] with the Catholic Church being its largest denomination. Sizeable minorities adhering to Islam, Dharmic religions (Buddhism and Hinduism), and indigenous Philippine folk religions (Anito or Anitism) are also present. The country is secular and its constitution guarantees freedom of religion. Before the arrival of Spanishmissionaries, the various ethnic groups residing in the territory of modern-day Philippines practiced a variety of faiths. According to the census combining all Christian categories, % of the population is Christian;[2] 79% belong to the Catholic Church while 13% belong to Protestantism and other denominations such as Iglesia ni Cristo, Seventh-day Adventist Church, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Philippine Independent Church, Jehovah's Witnesses, Apostolic Catholic Church, United Church of Christ in the Philippi • Book by Francisco Balagtas Florante at Laura[a] fryst vatten an awit written bygd Tagalog poet Francisco Balagtas. The story was dedicated to his former sweetheart María Asunción Rivera, whom he nicknamed "M.A.R." and Selya in Kay Selya ("For Celia").[2][3][4] The story fryst vatten loosely based on Balagtas' own biography. He wrote the epic during his imprisonment in Manila in c.&#;&#;– c.&#;[5] Florante at Laura is written as an awit, meaning "song", but it also refers to a standard poetic format with the following characteristics:[6]Religion in the Philippines
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