{"title":"x-FILIPINO AMERICAN EXPERIENCE \u0026 FILIPINOS IN THE DIASPORA - Male Authors (Eric Gamalinda)","description":"\u003cp\u003ecomplete\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-descartes-highlands-by-eric-gamalinda","title":"The Descartes Highlands by Eric Gamalinda","description":"\"Darkly spellbinding...With a keen eye for splendor amid the grotesque, Gamalinda writes with a poet's heart and a philosopher's mind, while enthralling readers with emotional, gritty. Booklist \"It's Gamalinda's best and most accessible novel yet, deserving to be read by as many people as possible.\" Philippine Daily Inquirer \"The wait for Gamalinda's first US based publication was well worth [it]...An indispensable, powerful portrayal of broken families trapped in the centripetal forces of transnational capital and postcolonial politics.\" Asian American Literature Fans \"A mesmerizing story full of mystery...intricate...beautiful writing.\" Publishers Weekly Two men, each unaware of the other, share a common family secret: they were sold for adoption by their American father shortly after their births in the Philippines. Three alternating stories interweave the experiences of father Andrew Breszky and the two sons who try to connect and piece together the puzzle of their reckless, impulsive father. One lives in New York and the other grows up in the south of France, later traveling all over Asia as a documentary filmmaker. Both will discover that their relationships somehow echo that of the young man whose history eludes them. Celebrated Filipino writer Eric Gamalinda's international debut novel is a contemporary work of ideas that combines mystery, film noir, and existential philosophy. Highly intricate and written in a style reminiscent of the maverick narrative techniques of such filmmakers as Andrei Tarkovsky and B̩la Tarr, and with some of the philosophical underpinnings of Michel Houellebecq or Javier MarÌ_as. Named after the region of the moon where Apollo 16 landed in the same year these men were born, The Descartes Highlands demonstrates that for lives marked by unrelieved loneliness, the only hope lies in the redemptive power of love. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn and raised in Manila and currently living in New York City, Eric Gamalinda is the author of five novels that revolve around a common theme: an examination of the Filipinos soul and identity, and their struggle to make sense of a complicated history often marked by hardship and brutality, but also love and beauty. He was publications director of the Asian American Writers Workshop until 1997, Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Hawaii in Manoa in 1999, and Visiting Scholar at New York University's Asia Pacific American Studies Program in 2002-03. He currently teaches at Columbia University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eItem Weight : 10.9 ounces \u003cbr\u003ePaperback : 300 pages\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13 : 978-16-1-775304-6 \u003cbr\u003eProduct Dimensions : 5.2 x 1 x 8.2 inches \u003cbr\u003ePublisher : Akashic Books (November 4, 2014) \u003cbr\u003eLanguage: : English","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39567569256614,"sku":"SKU-606","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/0785\/3478\/products\/db58d3b99f24e150d51a8b4c56feda83.jpg?v=1616550749"},{"product_id":"people-are-strange-by-eric-gamalinda","title":"People Are Strange: Stories by Eric Gamalinda","description":"\"Misfits and outcasts populate People Are Strange, a collection of stories by one of the Philippines’ most enigmatic writers and winner of the Philippine Centennial Prize, the highest award ever given in Philippine history. An unforgettable panorama of surreal weirdness, People Are Strange is like Twilight Zone with an Asian, magic realist twist. In these eight stories, Gamalinda creates a stranger-than-fiction world “where normal doesn’t exist.” There are former Manila celebrities-one a personal psychic of the Marcoses, another the “Elvis of Manila”-who must deal with anonymity and change in the U.S. There’s a woman who receives emails from her dead ex-husband, and a poet who uses his student in a publishing scam that turns them into the most notorious literary frauds of their time. There’s a man who discovers he can change his skin color at will, and becomes the object of a worldwide manhunt. In a story inspired by Kafka, a fly that infests an apartment parallels the apartment dweller’s inconsequential life. In another story, Skylab falls, and a small group of people forms a pop-up cult to stop it from hitting Manila. And finally there’s a tender story about the author’s grandfather and the strange pact he made with his two best friends-to come back from the dead and let the others know what the afterlife is all about.\" - Excerpts from the publisher's website.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eItem Weight : 5.6 ounces\u003cbr\u003ePaperback : 150 pages\u003cbr\u003eISBN-10 : 193687313-3\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13 : 978-19-3-687313-5\u003cbr\u003eDimensions : 5.4 x 0.3 x 8.3 inches\u003cbr\u003ePublisher : Black Lawrence Press (April 10, 2012)\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: : English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eC.E.","brand":"Black Lawrence Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39567776252070,"sku":"SKU-1648","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/0785\/3478\/products\/d676f0613ab321b0cefe802f78a9a6b8.jpg?v=1616552779"},{"product_id":"planet-waves-a-novel-by-eric-gamalinda","title":"Planet Waves: A Novel by Eric Gamalinda","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOut of print title.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEric Gamalinda was born in Manila in 1956 and attended the University of Santo Tomas and the University of the Philippines. He was appointed local fellow for poetry in 1983 by the UP Creative Writing Center, for which he submitted Popular Delusions, a collection of poems. He has published an earlier collection of verse, Fire Poem\/Rain Poem (Oriental Media, 1976). He has won the Carlos Palanca Memorial award for a one-act play (1981), poetry (1985,1988) and short fiction (1988), as well as the Asiaweek third prize for short fiction (1985) and a Focus magazine award for poetry (1981). He has been published in Frank, a journal on the arts produced in Paris, and had written columns and articles on art, rock music and current events for several Manila publications. He is an associate fellow of the Philippine Literary Arts Council.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback: 141 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: New Day Publishers, 1989\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9711002752\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9711002756\u003cbr\u003eItem Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.11 pounds\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"New Day Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45385678848166,"sku":"","price":82.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/0785\/3478\/files\/537918.jpg?v=1715989655"},{"product_id":"peripheral-vision-by-eric-gamalinda","title":"Peripheral Vision by Eric Gamalinda","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom a story about old magicians desperately looking for the course of electricity in Central Manila, to a novella about an island plagued with apparitions, to the cryptic messages of a space shuttle known as V-X, this three-part collection takes the reader on a journey through the absurd, magic of outer space. Eric Gamalinda was born in Manila and has received numerous awards for his fiction and poetry. 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Set against the epic backdrop of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent war between the United States and the Philippines, it is loosely based on the life of Dionisio Magbuela, also known as Isio, or “The Pope.” One of several leaders of millenarian movements across the archipelago, he rose to legend during a time of immense social and cultural change in the country, where the Spaniards had kept many islands under the spell of sixteenth-century superstition. It was a time that would be pivotal in the history not only of the Philippines, but also the United States, which was on the brink of becoming the next global empire. Blending actual historical sources, folklore, and native ritual, the novel narrates the impact of these upheavals on the lives of several characters whose destinies are altered by a nation about to be born, and its repercussions which linger to this day.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher ‏ : ‎ University of the Philippines Press (January 1, 2000)\u003cbr\u003eLanguage ‏ : ‎ English\u003cbr\u003ePaperback ‏ : ‎ 393 pages\u003cbr\u003eISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9715422314\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9715422314\u003cbr\u003eItem Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.6 ounces\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"University of the Philippines Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45385712337062,"sku":"","price":79.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/0785\/3478\/files\/81EARcf9Z0L._SL1500.jpg?v=1715992898"},{"product_id":"confessions-of-a-volcano-a-novel-by-eric-gamalinda","title":"Confessions of A Volcano: A Novel by Eric Gamalinda","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOut of print title.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe only have 1 copy left.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e If interested, email us: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"mailto:info@philippinebookshop.com\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003einfo@philippinebookshop.com\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e but do not pay for your order first. Upon receipt of your email, we will check with the publisher if the book is still available, what is the new price, and when to expect delivery. This way, we can relay the particulars to you before you pay. Please note that if you pay and then cancel your order for one reason or another, PayPal has a 3.9% plus $0.15 fee that they charge us for every transaction. So, we would appreciate it if you just follow the instructions as stated here. This way, we will not pass on this fee to you should you cancel your order.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Confessions is an important text because it explores a different psycho-social landscape, it works within a Buddhist sensibility, a Japanese aesthetic, and places the Filipino novel on unfamiliar an Asian tradition. Philippine tradition as a mixture of folk belief, Roman Catholicism, and Spanish and American influences seems to have developed apart from major Asian religious and philosophical traditions. It is this other Asian tradition that Daniel, the novel’s protagonist, encounters in his visit to Japan. During his visit, he learns about Filipino contract workers, the Japayuki, the pleasure girls imported from other Asian countries. He witnesses the exploitation of these workers. At the same time and quite at odds with social reality, Daniel has an aesthetic he is fascinated by the life and work of Osamu Dazai, an early twentieth-century Japanese writer. His fascination with Dazai, who committed suicide by throwing himself into the Tokyo River, leads him to recreate a Japanese writer’s sensibility.” TOMAS N. SANTOS in Philippine Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher ‏ : ‎ Anvil Publishing Inc. 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