What is the book Cave And Shadows by Nick Joaquin all about?

Answer 1

Set within the time of activists' frequent demonstrations in Manila, specifically the August of "72 before the declaration of martial law. A sort of whodunit with excursions into the esoteric and historical, cults and beatas, little known caves for example within Metro Manila where some of the strange happenings occur. It is also loves and attempted reconciliation's, friendship and politics the tyrannies of family and love.

Answer 2

The story is all about the mysterious death of a girl Named Nenita Coogan. The American girl who had been hated by many because of being so talkative and she often tell story or secrets of a person to the world, others call her a compulsive liar. (Why was her death considered mysterious?) It is because she had been found dead in a cave which had been closed to the public and guarded by the mayor's guards so that nobody could enter into that cave she's bare naked when found and so fragrant which caught the of attention of Mr. Pocholo Gatmaitan that's why her body was found. Mr. Jack Henson, former husband of Alfreda was told by the latter to investigate about the case of her daughter because she cannot get easily encourage that her daughter only died in cardiac arrest and not been murdered nor raped. So, Jack, from Davao planned to Manila and there Nenitas ghost haunted him, as if for him, Nenitawanted to say something. He investigate it all his might, he went to Nenita's whereabouts and interviewed her friends and even ask the oldest person in Barrio Bato because in his mind, there's a secret passage in the cave where Nenita has been found, that might be the passage where Nenita entered to be able to enter the cave, non might been used by the murderer. After all the information's he got and the persons he met, he found out the killer and how he planned to do the killing but all that he guessed where just conclusions and some of it were true and definitely true yet at the end when he went to the Hermana, the priestess of the cult there. He found the answers though mystically told or unbelievable but Hermana has point and proved it to him. According to Hermana, Pocholo is whom Jack found out to be the murderer because of the plan Pocholo admit to him,but the ghost of Nenita herself talked to the Hermana saying that she died with love which she found out inside the cave where in the goddesses of the cave gave her, she has been awake when Pocholo carried her in the cave and she found the cave bright and fragrant and the goddess spoke to her that if she wanted to stay she could stay forever in the cave with the goddess or she could also went out to the world where she always run away and hurt by the people around her and Nenita just decided to stay, the fragrance of Nenitas body is not because of the car full of flowers where Nenita has laid inside Pocholo's car compartment because he fragrance wont last overnight, the fragrance was from the goddess of the cave Jack was puzzled because Pocholo admitted that he staged Nenitas apparition, he is the one who paid Yvette in order to act as Nenita and Hermana told Jack that Yvette was miles and miles away when Jack saw Nenits ghost, it means that Yvette didn't do the instruction of Pocholo, the ghost is Nenita herself and the goddesses planed it because of reason. Why was Pocholo wanted to kill Nenita? Because Nenita found out the secrets of Pocholo and then he just tried to stop her but actually Pocholo only slapped Nenita because she was hysterical that time, maybe because she has gone in pot orgy and very exhausted that time, then, Nenita fe fell from a deep sleep and didn't wake up anymore, even when she was carried inside the cave.