The Stories: "Lechonito the Holy lnnocent" "The Mystery Sleeper of Balite Drive" "The Traveling Salesman and the Split Woman" "Balikbayan" "Gotita de Dragon"
Nick Joaquin, novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, historian, and biographer, is widely regarded as the greatest Filipino writer in English of the twentieth century. He has produced a body of work "unmatched in richness and range by any of his contemporaries." He was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts, and the National Artist Award for Literature, the highest recognition given by the state to an artist, for his "rare excellence and significant contribution to literature."
Here, in this collection of five short stories for both young and old, the great master uses both his whimsy and his sense of the gothic to re-imagine Philippine folktales.
Author and Publisher: Nick Joaquin, Anvil Publishing, Inc. (2014)
