Binding: Paperback
Description: Nick Joaquin is widely considered one of the greatest Filipino writers but he has remained little - known outside his home country despite writing in English. With the post - colonial sensibilities of Junot Diaz Teju Cole and Jhumpa Lahiri and an ironic perspective of colonial history resonant with Marques and Llosa Joaquin is a long - neglected writer ready to join the ranks of the world classics. His work meditates on the questions and challenges of the Filipino individual's new freedom after a long history of colonialism exploring folklore centuries - old Catholic rites the Spanish colonial past magical realism and baroque splendour and excess. This collection features his best - known story The Woman Who Had Two Navels centred on Philippine emigrants living in Hong Kong and later expanded into a novel the much - anthologised story May Day Eve and a canonical play A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino.
Title: The Woman Who Had Two Navels And Tales Of The Tropical Gothic
Author(s): Joaquin Nick
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780143130710
Pages: 448 Pages
Publication Date: 4/18/2017
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction