THE WOMAN WHO HAD TWO NAVELS AND TALES OF THE TROPICAL GOTHIC PB – NICK JOAQUIN

"Nick Joaquin is widely considered one of the greatest Filipino writers, but he has remained little-known outside his home country despite writing in English. With the post-colonial sensibilities of Junot Diaz, Teju Cole, and Jhumpa Lahiri and an ironic perspective of colonial history resonant with Marques and Llosa, Joaquin is a long-neglected writer ready to join the ranks of the world classics. His work meditates on the questions and challenges of the Filipino individual s new freedom after a long history of colonialism, exploring folklore, centuries-old Catholic rites, the Spanish colonial past, magical realism, and baroque splendour and excess. This collection features his best-known story, The Woman Who Had Two Navels, centred on Philippine emigrants living in Hong Kong and later expanded into a novel, the much-anthologised story May Day Eve, and a canonical play, A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino."