Author: Ambeth R. OcampoPublisher: Anvil Books
ISBN:
Category : Philippine essays (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Luna's Moustache
Author: Ambeth R. OcampoPublisher: Anvil Books
ISBN:
Category : Philippine essays (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Love, Passion and Patriotism
Author: Raquel A. G. ReyesPublisher: NUS Press
ISBN: 9789971693565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Love, Passion and Patriotism is an intimate account of the lives and experiences of a renowned group of young Filipino patriots, the men whose propaganda campaign was a catalyst for the country's revolt against Spain. As writers, artists, and scientists who resided in Europe, they were exposed to new ideas. Reyes uses their paintings, photographs, political writings, novels, and letters to show the moral contradictions inherent in their passionate patriotism and their struggle to come to terms with the relative sexual freedom of European women, which they found both alluring and sordid.
Looking Back
Author: Ocampo AmbethPublisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9712736083
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
Hindsight is the lowest form of intelligence–except for historians. In this handy collection of Ambeth Ocampo’s “Looking Back” column pieces, the popular historian digs deep and looks back carefully at events, places and important people who make up the country’s history.
Looking Back 2
Author: Ambeth OcampoPublisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9712736091
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Ambeth Ocampo always makes historical figures come alive, blemishes and all, and with his curious eye, make our heroes very human and not the mythic figures that we want to make of them. [He] makes history enjoyable reading while at the same time makes it anchor us to the past and therefore, and hopefully, prepares us for the future.” – F. Sionil Jose, National Artist for Literature
Looking Back 3
Author: Ambeth OcampoPublisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9712736105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
The cause of history writing owes Ambeth Ocampo a great deal. By his extraordinary use of a relatively new genre, he has rescued history from the cold, forbidding halls of academe. He has made of history something amusing, entertaining . . . as immediate as a newspaper headline, as relevant as a rapper’s song.”– Carmen Guerrero-Nakpil
Looking Back 6
Author: Ambeth R. OcampoPublisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9712736822
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
In these beguiling essays on what lies beyond the fringes of Philippine recorded history—whether pointing out the laughing carabao on the margins of a centuries-old map, or combing for shards of Ming porcelain on a coral beach—Ocampo reminds us that the endless gathering and joining and breaking apart of apparently 'useless' bits is, after all, what makes us what we are, and connects us with others in their own quest for identity.
Looking Back 5
Author: Ambeth R. OcampoPublisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9712736792
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
In this book, besides offering the usual juicy titbits, he looks back not just at our history but also on his life as an historian, this book being written for his 50th birthday. His introduction alone is already worth the price of admission.
Looking Back 4
Author: Ocampo Ambeth R.Publisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9712736768
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Ambeth Ocampo on the inspiration behind this collection of essays: “Chulalongkorn’s elephants are the bronze elephants the King of Siam gave to Singapore and Java as gifts during his travels in 1871. I met the Singapore elephant first as I traced Rizal’s footsteps and found a reference to it in his diary. It was upon meeting next the Jakarta elephant that prompted me to compile this collection of essays that begins and ends with an elephant. More reflective than usual and going beyond Rizal and my 19th-centuray comfort zone, these explorations still carry my trademark irreverent humor.”
The Moustache
Author: Emmanuel CarrèrePublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473567580
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADVERSARY One morning, a man shaves off his long-worn moustache, hoping to amuse his wife and friends. But when nobody notices, or pretends not to have noticed, what started out as a simple trick turns to terror. As doubt and denial bristle, and every aspect of his life threatens to topple into madness – a disturbing solution comes into view, taking us on a dramatic flight across the world. Translated by Lanie Goodman Elegant novellas-in-translation, VINTAGE EDITIONS celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found.
Author: Margaret C. Helmore