Award-winning stories and tales about the rites of passage in our lives-love and loss, gladness and grief, departure and return-written in the realistic and fabulist modes
A collection of short fiction on love, longing and loss written in the realist and fantastic modes.
A collection of short fiction on love, longing and loss written in the realist and fantastic modes.
A young boy and his sisters gather beautiful shells on the beach as mementos of a country they will leave behind. A girl who loves the Beatles sees dwarves that are drawn charcoal-black on a white plate.
A rich matron in Singapore discovers a primeval thing in her ritzy penthouse. A poor woman in the boondocks gives birth to a mudfish. Dead lovers buried beneath a hotel ruined by an earthquake reach out to each other. And a woman poisoned in Scotland centuries ago still haunts a hilltop castle, looking for her dead lover.
These and other memorable characters inhabit Danton Remoto's book of stories and tales. Some of the stories are written in the realistic mode. They poke fun at a colourful but violent dictatorship or track the same-sex love in a young man's heart. The others are written in the fantastic mode-fables, parables, origin tales, cheeky rewriting of rural lore and urban legends. The length of the stories also varies. Some are flash fiction, while the others have the sweep of a novella.
The stories are meant to entertain but also to instruct- why the present is just a re-looping of the past, why love remains constant and true even beyond death. Written with daring and with dash, this book comes from the pen of 'one of Asia's best writers.'
Award-winning stories and tales about the rites of passage in our lives-love and loss, gladness and grief, departure and return-written in the realistic and fabulist modes
A collection of short fiction on love, longing and loss written in the realist and fantastic modes.
A collection of short fiction on love, longing and loss written in the realist and fantastic modes.
A young boy and his sisters gather beautiful shells on the beach as mementos of a country they will leave behind. A girl who loves the Beatles sees dwarves that are drawn charcoal-black on a white plate.
A rich matron in Singapore discovers a primeval thing in her ritzy penthouse. A poor woman in the boondocks gives birth to a mudfish. Dead lovers buried beneath a hotel ruined by an earthquake reach out to each other. And a woman poisoned in Scotland centuries ago still haunts a hilltop castle, looking for her dead lover.
These and other memorable characters inhabit Danton Remoto's book of stories and tales. Some of the stories are written in the realistic mode. They poke fun at a colourful but violent dictatorship or track the same-sex love in a young man's heart. The others are written in the fantastic mode-fables, parables, origin tales, cheeky rewriting of rural lore and urban legends. The length of the stories also varies. Some are flash fiction, while the others have the sweep of a novella.
The stories are meant to entertain but also to instruct- why the present is just a re-looping of the past, why love remains constant and true even beyond death. Written with daring and with dash, this book comes from the pen of 'one of Asia's best writers.'
Danton Remoto is a Professor of Creative Writing and Head of
School, English, at the University of Nottingham Malaysia. He was
educated at Ateneo de Manila University, University of Stirling,
University of the Philippines, and Rutgers University. He has
received fellowships and honours from the Asian Scholarship
Foundation, British Council,
Fulbright Foundation, and the Don Carlos Palanca Awards for
Literature, among others. The Writers' Union of the Philippines
gave him a National Achievement Award in Literature (Gawad Balagtas
sa Panitikan) in 2015. He was a Fellow at the Cambridge Conference
on Contemporary Literature at Downing College, Cambridge University
and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference at Middlebury College,
Vermont. He has published a book of short fiction, three books of
poems, and five books of non-fiction, all written originally in
English. His body of work is cited in The Routledge Concise History
of Southeast Asian Writing in English, The Encyclopedia of
Postcolonial Literature, and The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of
Literature.
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