In the wallet is P1,100, a picture of a man whose name is Jose Angelico who is a houseboy of an influential politician. One day, in the heap of a garbage from a rich district of Green Hills, they find a bag that contains a wallet, a key, a map. I had no chance to be there but my Sociology professor in the 80's told us in class that the houseflies were as big as dragonflies.Īnyway, Trash is about three orphan young boys who are sorting garbage in this mountain. The name is derived from the fact that the two million tonnes of waste, when in the process of decomposition, creates too high temperature that the mountain appears to be smoking or in fire. But for my foreigner Goodreads friends and those too young to know, this was how it looked like: Of course Smokey Mountain was closed in the late 90's by then President Ramos. Oh, the names of the characters are very Filipino: Rafael Fernandez, Gardo, Jun-jun 'The Rat' etc. Why? He used the places that are familiar to us Filipinos: Smoky Mountain (for us it is spelled with an 'e' as in Smokey), Green Hills (Greenhills is a shopping center in San Juan where the former president/vice-president/senator, Joseph Estrada lives), McKinley Hill and the currency is in pesos and the country celebrates All Soul's Day on November 2nd when people flock to cemeteries to pay respect to their dead. Trash by Andrew 'Andy' Mulligan, a British theatre director, drama teacher and now novelist is set most likely in the Philippines.

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