Lualhati Bautista
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 239 pages Rating: 4.14 | 3220 Users | 113 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Bata, Bata... Pa'no Ka Ginawa? |
| ISBN: | 9711900971 (ISBN13: 9789711900977) |
| Edition Language: | Filipino; Pilipino |
| Setting: | Philippines |
| Literary Awards: | Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Nobela, Grand Prize (1984) |
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This book is my 158th read book for this year but just the second time that I am giving a 1-star rating. As much as possible, I don't give this rating because there are always somethings to like in a book. Just imagine the hours the writer put in writing the book and prior to its release, he or she must have said a lot of prayers asking God to make readers buy and read it.But I also have to be honest to myself, right? I think Bautista should still be thankful that I bought and read her book. Anyway, this is my second by her. Last year, I read and liked her 2nd novel, Dekada '70 (3 stars), so this month, August, being the Month of our National Language, I picked up this book hoping that this was as good as Dekada. After all, Dekada won the Palanca (our equivalent of Pulitzer) in 1983 and this book, Bata, Bata won the following year, 1984. So, I said to myself: wow, two years in a row, this book must be really, really good.
But I got disappointed. Reasons:
1. Too feminine. I always believe that books, like human beings, have gender. This book is written by a woman only for women. It is too alienating for us men. Lualhati seems to have this itch to rally all women by her campaign slogan It's not a man's world! What you (men) can do, we can do, too! Oh well, who says that this is still a man's world. Hello? Wake up, little Suzie. It's the 21st century and you can already exercise your right of suffrage, both father and mother are now working and they fight when they don't agree, many woman have children without marrying, society no longer look down on them and yes women can do almost all the jobs that we men do and nobody gets surprised anymore. In short, this book is outdated. It's passe.I understand if my GR Filipino friends who are ladies or those who want to be ladies like this book very much but oh please, not for me.
Take note that I did not say feminist. I have no problem with feminist books or anything that defends equal rights for women. I said too-feminine and that made the book extremely alienating.
2. Rehash of Dekada. So many similarities between her 2nd book to this 3rd book. Not only about her outdated slogan but also about the missing child, the protagonist desire to work and her right to think of herself. It was as if I was still listening to Amanda Bartolome (the protagonist in Dekada) instead of Lea Bustamante (the protagonist here in Bata, Bata. Same banana, only the name has changed.
3. Lea is a sex-maniac. Oh, dear Lord. Stay away from Lea Bustamante. She is married. Since she doesn't want to stop working when her husband gets assigned to another place, she calls it quits even if they already have a son. When her husband leaves, she gets herself another man and now they also have a child, a daughter. Then when both of her men have their own new wives, she asks her co-worker to have sex with her and it is for her sexual urge to be satisfied.
I mean, oh dear Lord. In my 48 years of existence on earth, I have not met any woman like Lea Bustamante. She is just out of her mind. Sleeping around like a whore and having children in the process. At the very least, hello, have you not heard of safe sex, Miss Bustamante?
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| Title | : | Bata, Bata... Pa'no Ka Ginawa? |
| Author | : | Lualhati Bautista |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 239 pages |
| Published | : | 1991 by Cacho Publishing House (first published 1983) |
| Categories | : | Books. Download Books |
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Ratings: 4.14 From 3220 Users | 113 ReviewsCrit Epithetical Books Bata, Bata... Pa'no Ka Ginawa?
i read this when I was in my second year of high school. This novel is more meaningful when I read it again when I was in 2nd year college. It became a masterpiece for a film fest movie. I laughed when Luwalhati Bautista (the author) walked out from that awarding night on Best Filipino movies because she can't withstand the badddd politics inside the Filipino film industry. Go Luwalhati! Go!I love this book. This is a must read novel for both feminists and for the submissive females in thisI have learned a lot while reading this, but I have a feeling that if I reread this by the time I'm 20 or 80 with 10 grandchildren, I'd still learn something new. This book features a main character who, according to the person you'd ask, is either: a) a slut or b) a strong, liberal woman. I don't care which. I loved Lea. She was hilarious, but not to the point that her whole point as a character boils down to her being able to crack jokes. I loved the little details the author put in to flesh
Yesh, like the others, this is one "high-school-compliance-read-or-else-you-have-zero-final-rating-in-filipino"Is this an author's psychograph? I was just curious since my professor previously shared that Luwalhati has had that interlude with her bestfriend - making love as friends. And she claims that this is also one of the materials / vehicles to enlighten Pinoys that this is the current society.But I would recommend this to other teenagers, not because as high-school-compliance but because
This story by Lualhati Bautista is set at the 1980's when the 1st People Power Revolution (a.k.a. EDSA I) occurred. It is a story about a woman, a mother, a person, a Filipino.Its title, Bata, Bata... Pa'no Ka Ginawa? (Child, Child... How were you made?) would seem scandalous depending on the person who views it. But it really does apply to the story. No, not because of the protagonist's (Lea Bustamante) usual sexual urges but because of the open-mindedness that the book wants to propagate. If
outstanding characterization of a woman's point of view as a wife, mother, and as herself. i've read it before and found reading it a second time equally rewarding. lualhati bautista is perhaps the best contemporary Philippine writer in Filipino.
It`s sheer genius. I read it for my Filipino book report. :)
Stirring. I lost my copy of this book. Would really love to have a new one.
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