Red Rising Cordilleras

by Rodolfo Liporada

Overview

Led by a Catholic priest, followed by a renegade government soldier and a scholar - all friends, join rebels to save a tribal village from being deluged by a government dam project. They suffer the rigors of combats, captivity and torture, and a betrayal.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798855622782
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	10/02/2023
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Rudy D. Liporada was born in the Philippines and grew up in Baguio City. The City is nestled within the bosom of the Cordillera Mountains in Northern Luzon.
The Cordilleras are home to the indigenous Igorots.
As a freelance journalist and photojournalist for various local newspapers, he was critical of the regime of then President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos, Sr. Due to his activism, Liporada was among those thousands of incarcerated when the dictator declared martial law in September 23,1972. After having been captured and tortured, he would languish is prison for two years, released only at the intercession of close relatives who have connections with the regime.
The novel, Cordillera Red Rising where a priest, Father Carlo, gravitated to joining the Communist New People’s Army because a government dam project would inundate the village of his parish, while political, It has a heavy religious undertone. This is largely drawn from Liporada being a former Catholic seminarian with the CICM (Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae or Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary). The influence of the Catholic CICM and other priests and religious pastors is deep in the hinterlands apart from the whole of the Philippine archipelago.
Liporada graduated from the University of the Philippines with a major in economics, minor in sociology, and a cognate in political science. Armed with a portfolio of his writings and photojournalism artworks that were exhibited in hotels and other venues in Baguio City, he was able to teach feature writing, photography and advertising in Zambia, Africa.
Migrating to the United States, he was a contributor to the Ventura County Star. He also published and edited the defunct Filipino newspaper, Kapitbahay (neighbor). He was also a columnist for the San Diego Asian Journal which syndicated his column with the Northern Dispatch in Baguio City.
Currently a resident of San Felipe, Baja-California, he is currently the publisher and editor of the Baja-Cali Migrant Dispatch. Apart from his novel, Cordillera Red Rising, he has published other books with Amazon.com.
He is married to retired nurse Aurea Liporada nee Olosan. They have four live children who are now all married and had given them a brood of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Editorial Reviews

The novelist uses a series of surprise twists in an ironic manner to keep his reader riveted to the book. In the first of surprise twists, Fr. Carlo proves himself a devoted priest and servant to his parishioners and ultimately wins the heart of Lumayang after proving himself in confronting and outwitting the military officer of an enemy team in search of the NPA.

Northern Dispatch, Baguio City - Jose Maria Sison