Merlinda Carullo Bobis

Over the course of a hot Philippine summer, twelve-year-old Neris is inspired by the myth of the banana heart to find a way to appease her family's hunger and win her mother's love, in a poignant novel set against the backdrop of a small, poverty-stricken town near an active volcano. A first novel. Original. 40,000 first printing.

A Novel

Banana Heart Summer

An Epic

Cantata of the Warrior Woman, Daragang Magayon

Ang lipad ay awit sa apat na hangin

Dream Stories

The Kindness of Birds

Accidents of Composition : There Could be Accidents of Kindness Here

Selected Poems, 1985-1990

Rituals

Homecoming

Creative Research: Towards Writing Fiction

A Novel-in-waiting

Fish-hair Woman

"A valuable contribution to postcolonial and multicutural literature."--Bruce Bennett

A Collection of Short Stories

The Kissing

Selling handmade paper lanterns during the Christmas season in bustling Manila, mute ten-year-old Noland rescues an American tourist who has been injured in a drive-by shooting and introduces her to his poverty-stricken and war-marked world. Original.

The Solemn Lantern Maker

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.

White Turtle

To love in a language prised from my wishbone. To sing a landscape where village girls burst the moon with giggles. To dance through the fattest eye of a rice-grain -- to do all these in peace and war is the wish embodied in Merlinda Bobis' poetry. From her epic poem 'Cantala of the Warrior Woman Daragang Magayon' to lyric reflections on longing, and finally to an erotic poetry-dance-drama, Bobis traces the cartography of desire and its intimacy with death.

Summer was a Fast Train Without Terminals

Merlinda Carullo Bobis

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