by press_admin | Jun 30, 2017
BUY THIS BOOK Vantage Point The Sixth Estate and Other Discoveries “Language,” it is said in absurdist plays, “is often dislocated, full of clichés, puns, repetitions, and non sequiturs.” And we find ourselves overwhelmed by the poisonous words that filter out of the...
by press_admin | Jun 30, 2017
BUY THIS BOOK Taburos Han Dagat The Red Sea and the desert were my environs during my writer’s retreat at El Gouna. The cool night wind of the sea and the cawing of black crows in the desert reminded me how far I was from home. I realized how it was to be an exile,...
by press_admin | Jun 30, 2017
BUY THIS BOOK Kundiman sa Gitna ng Karimlan Piniling mga Tula Ang wika ay isang matinding larangan ng pakikibaka ng mga uri, lakas, at iba’t ibang sektor ng lipunan sa bawat yugto ng kasaysayan. Sa balangkas at prosesong umuugit sa mga salita nakaugat ang paraan ng...
by press_admin | Jun 30, 2017
BUY THIS BOOK Snows of Yesteryear A Family in War A Sentimental Education The stories that moved me were “Coming Home,” “Twilight in Quebec,” and “The Visit.” It was vicarious. Unlike Elmer, I never knew any prisoner who walked from Muntinlupa to Pasay across a...
by press_admin | Jun 30, 2017
BUY THIS BOOK Breaking the Silence (Revised Edition) Breaking the Silence is a story reluctantly told by the author, a survivor of Japanese atrocities during the liberation of Manila. It was first partially recounted to Nick Joaquin who had been commissioned by the...
