Ten-year-old Noland, a mute lantern maker, imagines that he sees an angel falling from the sky to the slums where he lives. But it’s only an American tourist who is caught in a drive-by shooting of a political journalist. At a busy intersection in Manila, the magical and seedy collide: shimmering lanterns and poverty, Christmas carols and child prostitution, dreams of friendship and the global ‘war on terror’. A hut in the slums becomes a cathedral and silence is an exchange of breaths.
Merlinda Bobis
The Solemn Lantern Maker
$10.00 – Paperback book / Pier
Ten-year-old Noland, a mute lantern maker, imagines that he sees an angel falling from the sky to the slums where he lives. But it’s only an American tourist who is caught in a drive-by shooting of a political journalist... Buy or find out more →
Banana Heart Summer
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
The myth of the banana heart inspires 12-year-old Nenita, growing up in a small, impoverished Filippino town. She will appease her family’s hunger and win her violent mother’s affection. Touching, funny, elegaic, this is... Buy or find out more →
Summer Was A Fast Train Without Terminals
$0.00 – Paperback book / Spinifex Press
To love in a language prised from my wishbone. To sing a landscape where village girls once 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 embo... Buy or find out more →
White Turtle
$21.95 – Paperback book / Spinifex Press
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... Buy or find out more →