{"product_id":"the-heart-of-summer-stories-and-tales-paperback","title":"The Heart of Summer: Stories and Tales - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDanton Remoto\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward-winning stories and tales about the rites of passage in our lives--love and loss, gladness and grief, departure and return--written in the realistic and fabulist modes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection of short fiction on love, longing and loss written in the realist and fantastic modes. A young boy and his sisters gather beautiful shells on the beach as mementos of a country they will leave behind. A girl who loves the Beatles sees dwarfs that are drawn charcoal-black on a white plate. A rich matron in Singapore discovers a primeval thing in her ritzy penthouse. A poor woman in the boondocks gives birth to a mudfish. Dead lovers buried beneath a hotel ruined by an earthquake reach out to each other. And a woman poisoned in Scotland centuries ago still haunts a hilltop castle, looking for her dead lover. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These and other memorable characters inhabit Danton Remoto's book of stories and tales. Some of the stories are written in the realistic mode. They poke fun at a colorful but violent dictatorship or track the same-sex love in a young man's heart. The others are written in the fantastic mode--fables, parables, origin tales, cheeky rewriting of rural lore and urban legends. The length of the stories also varies. Some are flash fiction, while the others have the sweep of a novella. The stories are meant to entertain but also to instruct: why the present is just a re-looping of the past, why love remains constant and true even beyond death. Written with daring and with dash, this book comes from the pen of 'one of Asia's best writers'.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDanton Remoto\u003c\/b\u003e studied publishing s at the University of Stirling (British Council scholar) and world literature at \u003cb\u003eRutgers University (Fulbright scholar)\u003c\/b\u003e. He was also an Association of Southeast Asian Nations scholar in English Literature at Ateneo de Manila University and a research scholar in Asian Literature at the National University of Singapore. He has worked as a publishing director at Ateneo, head of communications at the United Nations Development Program, president of The Manila Times College, and head of school at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He has published twelve books, including \u003ci\u003eRiverrun\u003c\/i\u003e. He translated the 1906 novel by Lope K. Santos, \u003ci\u003eBanaag at Sikat\u003c\/i\u003e, into English (\u003ci\u003eRadiance and Sunrise\u003c\/i\u003e) for the Southeast Asian Literary Classics series, as well as the novels by Amado V. Hernandez, \u003ci\u003eIbong Mandaragit\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Preying Birds\u003c\/i\u003e) and \u003ci\u003eCrocodile's Tears\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eLuha ng Buwaya\u003c\/i\u003e). He is currently the News Editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Manila Times\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He is a co-editor of \u003ci\u003eLadlad: An Anthology of Philippine Gay Writing\u003c\/i\u003e in 1994, which was the\u003cb\u003e first multiauthor anthology of gay writing in Southeast Asia and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award\u003c\/b\u003e in the US. His body of literary work is cited in \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Routledge Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Literature\u003c\/i\u003e. He has been a literature fellow at the Cambridge University Summer Seminar on Contemporary Literature, the \u003cb\u003eBread Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont \u003c\/b\u003eand the \u003cb\u003eMacDowell Arts Residency in New Hampshire\u003c\/b\u003e. He is now writing his third novel set in New York City as well as his fourth collection of poems. \u003cb\u003eHe divides his time between Los Angeles and Southeast Asia. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 03, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765552972064,"sku":"9789815058178","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8d62f4df67b0aa5ac8154417b9a10b88.webp?v=1780273606","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-heart-of-summer-stories-and-tales-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}