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A Tropical Winter's Tale and Other Stories

Charlson Ong

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Description:These stories, selected by the author himself from his three prize-winning short story collections, tell an important of the story of the Filipino-Chinese, itself an important part of the story of the nation.Writes poet and scholar, Ronald Baytan: "There have been many Chinese writers writing in English...perhaps as early as the 1960s. No one else has achieved the status attained by Ong. In a way, it is his entry into the mainstream Philippine Literature that has forced the critics to acknowledge the presence of a dynamic and growing body of writings by the Chinese...Pain, juxtaposed with a certain wry humor, governs Ong's fictional worlds, and Chinese or not, the characters are endowed with an ironic and laughing voice that hits home only because their laughter is synonymous with grief."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Tropical Winter's Tale and Other Stories. To get started finding A Tropical Winter's Tale and Other Stories, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 151

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: the University of the Philippines Press

Release: 2003

ISBN: 9715423981

Description: These stories, selected by the author himself from his three prize-winning short story collections, tell an important of the story of the Filipino-Chinese, itself an important part of the story of the nation.Writes poet and scholar, Ronald Baytan: "There have been many Chinese writers writing in English...perhaps as early as the 1960s. No one else has achieved the status attained by Ong. In a way, it is his entry into the mainstream Philippine Literature that has forced the critics to acknowledge the presence of a dynamic and growing body of writings by the Chinese...Pain, juxtaposed with a certain wry humor, governs Ong's fictional worlds, and Chinese or not, the characters are endowed with an ironic and laughing voice that hits home only because their laughter is synonymous with grief."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Tropical Winter's Tale and Other Stories. To get started finding A Tropical Winter's Tale and Other Stories, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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