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Main : fiction, short stories, migration, Philippines

ISBN: 9781875559893
0.150 kgs
198 x 128 mm
200 pp

White Turtle
Merlinda Bobis

Co-winner, Steele Rudd Award, best collection of short stories, 2000
Winner, National Book Award (fiction), Manila Critics Circle, 2000

An anomalous kiss. A white turtle ferrying the dreams of the dead. A working siesta in a five-star hotel. A woman’s twelve-metre hair trawling corpses from a river. Or a queue of longings in Darlinghurst. These enigmatic tales are stories of chance and hope. Alternately mythic, wistful or quirky, Merlinda Bobis’ tales resonate with an original and confident storytelling voice. Published as The Kissing in the United States.

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'Merlinda Bobis is a superb storyteller. She can take you into the precious intimacies of ehr characters with such ease that you are left breathless by the rhythm, the motion, the prevailing currents with which you've entered the mood of the tale.' Source: KASAMA
Reviewer: Dee Dicen Hunt

'An evocative glimpse into a little known culture...’

Reviewer: Ginu Kamani, author of Junglee Girl

‘A versatile collection that brings together the creations of wide-ranging observation, a candid mind, a sympathetic heart, and a delicious sense of humour. New angles on the familiar startle and refresh the reader at every turn. A writer to watch and applaud.’

Reviewer: Yasmin Gooneratne

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