I Was the President's Mistress!!

<p><b>¿Brilliant . . . Miguel Syjuco is his country¿s most original and unflinching literary voice.¿ ¿</b><b>Salman Rushdie</b><br><br><b>¿It¿s a rare novel that leaves you reeling simultaneously with admiration, exhaustion, amazement at its author¿s reach and skill, and desolation at the world it spreads out before you . . . [A] raging protest of a book.¿ ¿James Lasdun, <i>The New York Times Book Review </i>(Editors¿ Choice)</b><br><br><b>From Miguel Syjuco, the winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize for <i>Ilustrado</i>, <i>I Was the President''s Mistress!!</i> is an unflinching satire about power, corruption, sex, and all the other topics you were told never to discuss in polite company.</b><br><br>How much would you sacrifice for what you believe? <br>Is what you believe even true? <br>And what if you secretly recorded the crimes of your once-trusted lover¿who also happens to be the president? <br><br>For Vita Nova, introverted megastar, such a conundrum could ruin <i>everything</i