Linda Ty-Casper

A River, One-Woman Deep

Stories

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Produktbeschreibung

Award-winning Filipina writer, Linda Ty-Casper, who is noted for her historical fiction set in the Philippines, presents a new collection entitled, A River, One-Woman Deep: Stories. The book includes her novella of the same title and short stories. Her novella is set during the tumultuous Estrada years from 1998 to 2001 when the Philippine president rose to power and was impeached after massive rallies. The main character is a Filipina-American who uncovers a family secret during her visit to Manila, a secret caused by another traumatic event in the Philippines -- World War II. The other stories in her collection are about Filipino and Filipino-American women. These stories, as well as her earlier works, are about characters whose lives have been changed by historical events. So powerful were/are the author's character-driven stories, that her books Fortress in the Plaza and Wings of Stone were banned in the Philippines during the Marcos dictatorship. Readers International of London published both novellas.These two novellas continue to be read and studied by Filipinos who are dealing with the current Philippine drug war and extrajudicial killings. Ty-Casper had graduated from her studies in Law from the University of the Philippines and Harvard when she came across erroneous and biased books at Widener Library. She abandoned Law and became an advocate, through faithfully researched historical fiction, of the Filipino's right to self-definition/determination. She has authored 16 books and has received the SEA WRITE Award, UNESCO/P.E.N., Rockefeller (Bellagio), Radcliffe Fellowship, among others. Her stories have been published in Antioch Review, The Asia Magazine, Windsor Review, Hawaii Review, Triquarterly, and others. Her works of fiction are significant contributions to Filipino, Philippine American, as well as Asian Amerian literature. A River, One-Woman Deep: Stories is published in the US by Philippine American Literary House (PALH); it is simultaneously published in the Philippines by the University of Santo Tomas Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: PALH
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 328g
• ISBN-13: 9780971945852
• ISBN-10: 0971945853
• Artikelnr.: 47771028

Autorenporträt

Linda Ty-Casper was born as Belinda Ty in Manila, Philippines in 1931. Her father worked in the Philippine National Railways; her mother was a school teacher and textbook writer. It was her grandmother who told her stories about the Philippine struggle for independence, a topic she picked up in her novels. She has law degrees from the University of the Philippines and Harvard. However, erroneous and biased statements in books at Widener Library converted her into an advocate, through faithfully researched historical fiction, of Filipino's right to self-definition/determination. Because of this incident she went on to write over sixteen books mostly with historical and political themes. THE PENINSULARS centers on eighteenth-century Manila; THE THREE-CORNERED SUN written on a Radcliffe Institute grant, deals with the 1896 Revolution; and TEN THOUSAND SEEDS Iis about the start of the Philippine American War. Contemporary events, including martial law years, appear in DREAD EMPIRE, HAZARDS OF DISTANCE, FORTRESS IN THE PLAZA, AWAITING A SMALL PARTY IN A GARDEN, and DREAMEDEN. Two of her historical/political novels, WINGS OF STONE and AWAITING TRESPASS, were banned in the Philippines during the Marcos dictatorship and the books were published in London. Her stories, collected in Transparent Sun, The Secret Runner, and Common Continent, originally appeared in magazines such as Antioch Review, The Asia Magazine, Windsor Review, Hawaii Review, and Triquarterly. One short story was cited in The Best American Short Stories of 1977 Honor Roll. Another won a UNESCO and P.E.N. prizes. She has held grants from the Djerassi Foundation, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the Wheatland Foundation. She and her late husband, Leonard Casper, have two daughters.