 Cover photo of the Random House edition of the book | |
| Author | F. H. Batacan |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Unknown |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Publisher | University of the Philippines Press Soho Press |
Publication date | 2002 |
| Publication place | Philippines |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 155 pp (first edition) |
Smaller and Smaller Circles is a mystery novel by Filipino novelist F. H. Batacan. It won the Carlos Palanca Grand Prize for the English Novel in 1999.[1] It also won the National Book Award in 2002 and the Madrigal-Gonzalez Award in 2003.
The book was the first Filipino crime novel.[1] This novel was published in 2002 by the University of the Philippines Press as one of the first new fiction works they had selected.[1] Although most Filipino English-language fiction works garner a single print run of only 1,000 copies,[1] Smaller and Smaller Circles was reprinted four times, with a total of 6,000 copies.[2]
A film adaptation of the novel, Smaller and Smaller Circles, directed by Raya Martin, was released on 6 December 2017.