TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bobis, Merlinda.
TI  - Fish-hair woman
SN  - 9789712726873
AV  - PS 9993.B63 .F527 2013
PY  - 2013///];©2013
CY  - Mandaluyong City
PB  - Anvil Publishing
KW  - Philippine fiction (English)
KW  - sears
KW  - Short stories, Philippine
N2  - 1987. The Philippine government fights a total war against insurgency. The village of Iraya is militarised. The days are violent and the nights heavy with fireflies in the river where the dead are dumped. With her twelve-metre hair, Estrella, the Fish-hair Woman, trawls corpses from the water that tastes of lemon grass. She falls in love with the Australian Tony McIntyre who disappears in the conflict. Ten years later, his son travels to Manila to find his father. From the Philippines to Australia, Hawai'i, to evocations of colonial Spain, this transnational novel spins a dark, epic tale. Its storytelling is expansive, like the heart
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