Vigan and other stories /
Brainard, Cecilia Manguerra.
Vigan and other stories / Cecilia Manguerra Brainard. - xix, 167 pages ; 22 cm.
In this, her third collection of short stories, award-winning author Cecilia Manguerra Brainard shows an uncanny talent for speaking in varied voices that bridge time and place: she is at home in Vigan, the mythical Ubec (Cebu), Sagada, Manila, Cusco, Peru, Calcutta, Chartres, California, bringing each location alive with loving detail. She speaks as a school girl, an older woman, a love-struck boy, a stolen child, an underground revolutionary. She writes of her own family and childhood with love and sadness and a deep sense of humanity.
9789712724435
Short stories, Philippine (English)
PS 9993.B7 / .V68 2011
Vigan and other stories / Cecilia Manguerra Brainard. - xix, 167 pages ; 22 cm.
In this, her third collection of short stories, award-winning author Cecilia Manguerra Brainard shows an uncanny talent for speaking in varied voices that bridge time and place: she is at home in Vigan, the mythical Ubec (Cebu), Sagada, Manila, Cusco, Peru, Calcutta, Chartres, California, bringing each location alive with loving detail. She speaks as a school girl, an older woman, a love-struck boy, a stolen child, an underground revolutionary. She writes of her own family and childhood with love and sadness and a deep sense of humanity.
9789712724435
Short stories, Philippine (English)
PS 9993.B7 / .V68 2011
