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Worship the Body

Autor Alvin Yapan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iul 2024
Four individuals try to conceive an extraordinary family in urban Manila and rediscover that secrets can also be joyous Jaime drops by a restaurant to cool off with a glass of beer. Jun waits on him during that random visit. Something happens between them when their eyes meet over the glass of beer-- Jaime considers it an accident and Jun considers it luck. Years later, their paths cross again when Jamie's wife, Ria, innocently hires Jun as their family driver and is introduced to Jun's wife, Maya. Ria and Maya establish a unique connection as women confronted with questions about power and emotions even as they uncover the bond between their husbands. Jaime and Jun are confronted with questions about history and myth. Told from different but interlocking points of view, the story of Jamie, Jun, Ria, and Maya becomes a song, complete with recurring refrains and a coda, intimating that there are silences to the body that are essential to our understanding of happiness.
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ISBN-13: 9789815204841
ISBN-10: 981520484X
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 124 x 196 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Penguin Random House SEA

Notă biografică

Alvin Yapan is an author and a filmmaker. He is a fellow at the 2022 Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange of Sing Lit Station and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University. His works, both in fiction and film, delve into the uncanny aspects of contemporary encounters with the non- and post-human. His first novel in the vernacular, Ang Sandali ng mga Mata (This Moment of Eyes, 2006), and his collection of short stories, Sangkatauhan Sangkahayupan (Humanity Bestiary, 2017), both received the Philippine National Book Award. His filmography includes Ang Sayaw ng Dalawang Kaliwang Paa (The Dance of Two Left Feet, 2011), and Ang Panggagahasa kay Fe (The Rapture of Fe, 2009), recognized as best digital feature films of the year in the Philippines and at the Cairo International Film Festival, respectively. He finds time to produce and direct films in the middle of his teaching commitments at the Department of Filipino, Ateneo de Manila University. He feels that his writing and filmmaking mutually reinforce each other.