{"id":15804,"date":"2025-09-09T14:14:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philippinesfrankfurt2025.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=15804"},"modified":"2025-10-03T00:35:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T16:35:57","slug":"at-the-frankfurt-book-fair-a-pretty-bad-girl-reading-and-discussion-with-jessica-zafra","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/philippinesfrankfurt2025.com\/de\/event\/at-the-frankfurt-book-fair-a-pretty-bad-girl-reading-and-discussion-with-jessica-zafra\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Frankfurt Book Fair: Age of Umbrage \/ Ein ziemlich b\u00f6ses M\u00e4dchen \u2013 Reading and Discussion with Jessica Zafra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In cooperation with TRANSIT Book Publishers and the National Book Development Board, Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Often with a sarcastic undertone and wit, this book reveals the stark contradictions in Philippine society, not as an accusation, but as a detailed observation of completely contrasting, foreign ways of life. Told from the perspective of a girl who initially seems naive, but who then observes with increasing keenness and causticity.<\/p>\n<p>Guada grows up in Manila with her mother, a teacher, after her father, a sailor and womanizer, has run away. To supplement their income, her mother sells homemade street food. Her cooking skills are discovered by a wealthy businessman with excellent political connections, who hires her and lets her and Guada live in his luxury estate. Confronted with this arrogant, corrupt &#8220;elite,&#8221; the girl quickly realizes that she doesn&#8217;t belong, withdraws\u2014and leaves everything behind in a fast-paced final chapter.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Zafra , born in 1965, is one of the Philippines&#8217; most well-known authors. She writes columns, primarily on cultural topics, for The New Yorker and Newsweek, among others. She is a film and literary critic, also works as a television journalist and screenwriter. &#8220;The Age of Umbrage&#8221; is her first novel, published in 2021 and reaching its fifth edition in 2024. <\/p>\n<p>19:30<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In cooperation with TRANSIT Book Publishers and the National Book Development Board, Philippines. Often with a sarcastic undertone and wit, this book reveals the stark contradictions in Philippine society, not as an accusation, but as a detailed observation of completely contrasting, foreign ways of life. Told from the perspective of a girl who initially seems [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":15823,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":""},"event-type":[],"month":[],"venue":[115],"class_list":["post-15804","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","venue-in-the-city"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippinesfrankfurt2025.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/15804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippinesfrankfurt2025.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippinesfrankfurt2025.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippinesfrankfurt2025.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippinesfrankfurt2025.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippinesfrankfurt2025.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-type?post=15804"},{"taxonomy":"month","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippinesfrankfurt2025.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/month?post=15804"},{"taxonomy":"venue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippinesfrankfurt2025.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/venue?post=15804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}