Is unique in the philippine literary scene - a pinoy detective novel, both fast-paced and intelligent, with a jesuit priest who also happens to be a forensic anthropologist as the sleuth. When it won the carlos palanca g...Is unique in the philippine literary scene - a pinoy detective novel, both fast-paced and intelligent, with a jesuit priest who also happens to be a forensic anthropologist as the sleuth. When it won the carlos palanca grand prize for the English novel in 1999, it proved that fiction can be both popular and literary.