The Heart of Summer by Danton Remoto - ISBN: 9789815058178
Paperback
Love, loss, and legend: journeys of the heart through reality and fantasy.

The Heart of Summer

Stories and Tales

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  • Paperback

    200 pages

  • Release Date

    11 July 2023

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Summary

Award-winning stories and tales about the rites of passage in our lives—love and loss, gladness and grief, departure and return—written in the realistic and fabulist modes.

A collection of short fiction on love, longing, and loss, written in the realist and fantastic modes.

A young boy and his sisters gather beautiful shells on the beach as mementos of a country they will leave behind. A girl who loves the Beatles sees dwarves that are drawn charcoal-black on a white plate. A …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9789815058178
ISBN-10:9815058177
Author:Danton Remoto
Publisher:Penguin Random House SEA
Imprint:Penguin Random House SEA
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:200
Release Date:11 July 2023
Weight:228g
Dimensions:215mm x 136mm x 13mm
About The Author

Danton Remoto

Danton Remoto is a Professor of Creative Writing and Head of School, English, at the University of Nottingham Malaysia. He was educated at Ateneo de Manila University, University of Stirling, University of the Philippines, and Rutgers University. He has received fellowships and honours from the Asian Scholarship Foundation, British Council, Fulbright Foundation, and the Don Carlos Palanca Awards for Literature, among others. The Writers’ Union of the Philippines gave him a National Achievement Award in Literature (Gawad Balagtas sa Panitikan) in 2015. He was a Fellow at the Cambridge Conference on Contemporary Literature at Downing College, Cambridge University and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at Middlebury College, Vermont. He has published a book of short fiction, three books of poems, and five books of non-fiction, all written originally in English. His body of work is cited in The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English, The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Literature, and The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature.

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