Merlinda Bobis

BANANA HEART SUMMER (Book)

Merlinda Bobis

ISBN:9781740455909

Set in a small Filipino town during a sweltering summer in the 1960s, this novel brims with colours, scents and flavours. Through the eyes of Nenita...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:272

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Banana Heart Summer (Book)

Merlinda Bobis

ISBN:9781410410344

In her lush, luminous debut novel, Merlinda Bobis creates a dazzling feast for all the senses. Richly imagined, gloriously written, Banana Heart Summer is an incandescent tale of food...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:341

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Banana Heart Summer (Book)

Merlinda Bobis

ISBN:9780385341127

In her lush, luminous debut novel, Merlinda Bobis creates a dazzling feast for all the senses. Richly imagined, gloriously written, Banana Heart Summer is an incandescent tale of food...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:257

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Fish-Hair Woman (Book)

Merlinda Bobis

ISBN:9781876756970

It's 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...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:290

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Solemn Lantern Maker (Book)

Merlinda Bobis

ISBN:9781741960785

At a busy intersection in Manila, the magical and the seedy collide: shimmering lanterns and poverty, Christmas carols and child prostitution...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:208

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Summer Was a Fast Train Without Terminal (Book)

Merlinda Bobis

ISBN:9781875559763

To love in a language prised from my wishbone. To sing a landscape where village girls burst the moon with giggles. To dance through the fattest eye of a rice-grain -- to do all these in peace and war is the wish embodied in Merlinda Bobis' poetry. From her epic poem 'Cantala of the Warrior Woman Daragang Magayon' to lyric reflections on longing...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:203

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The Kissing: A Collection of Short Stories (Book)

Merlinda Bobis

ISBN:9781879960602

""Imagine a half-note about to drop from its stem. Imagine this departure from the possibility of song. This is how to fall out of love before it has even been declared. And then we leave...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:183

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The Solemn Lantern Maker (Book)

Merlinda Bobis

ISBN:9780385341134

From the award-winning author of Banana Heart Summer--" a] wonderful debut... that] resembles Sandra Cisneros's "The House on Mango Street" and is destined to be a hit among book club members"*--comes a wondrous tale of hope...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:255

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White Turtle, The (Book)

Merlinda Bobis

ISBN:9781875559893

Once the turtle was small and blue-black like a polished stone. Carried on its back the dreams of Iraya's dead children that later sprouted into corals the colour of bones. After many funerals...more details
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