Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila, Marianne Villanueva

Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila

Marianne Villanueva

Publisher: CALYX Books
PubDate: 12/1/1991
ISBN: 9780934971195
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: $9.95
Quantity Available: 0
Pages: 120
 

Fiction. Asian American Studies. Set in the Philippines, these beautiful and poignant stories reveal characters trapped in extremity in urban violence or the crushing poverty of the provinces. The reader comes away with new insights into human nature and the valor and courage of the Philippine people.

Author City: REDWOOD USA

Marianne Villanueva, a former Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford, has been writing and publishing stories about the Philippines and Filipino Americans since the mid 1980s. She currently teaches writing and literature at Foothill College and Notre Dame de Namur University. Born and raised in Manila, she now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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