{"product_id":"canticles-for-dark-lovers","title":"Canticles for Dark Lovers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAward-winning short stories by literary magus Wilfrido D. Nolledo.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFREE SHIPPING UNTIL MAY 31\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 348 pages, 130mm x 180mm x 20mm, 360g\u003cbr\u003eISBN: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e978-621-96757-9-6\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForeword by Blanca D. Nolledo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSOMETHING HAD HAPPENED: FOR IT HAD BEEN A NIGHT OF LOVERS.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA lover knifing another in defense and then defiance, the price of a daughter’s filial love, letters read aloud, a body draped in blood holding a spotless veil, a straitlaced salaryman overcharged for a recording of his son’s voice, infatuation at a teaspoon of sugar, long-distance space texting, and yet again a woman singing at the dreamlike edge between a man’s breath and the next. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy turns grisly and tender, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCanticles for Dark Lovers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e presents sixteen short stories, initially published from 1955 to 1971, by Wilfrido D. Nolledo. The past devours the present in this new collection, which includes an early version of Nolledo’s novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut for the Lovers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (“Of Things Guadalupe”); his most awarded short stories (“Rice Wine,” “Adios, Ossimandas,” and “Kayumanggi, Mon Amour”); and previously uncollected writing that illustrates the breadth of his repertoire (“Guernica and the Blue Star,” “For Alonzo, Among the Alfalfa,” and “Moratorium Est Finie”). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlanca D. Nolledo says of her late husband in a new foreword, “Wilfrido . . . would probably prefer being remembered as a writer who echoed truths in life for all seasons, for all generations of writers.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Exploding Galaxies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47944682766595,"sku":"EGS8","price":780.0,"currency_code":"PHP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/9126\/2979\/files\/DSC09256_1.jpg?v=1776306141","url":"https:\/\/explodinggalaxies.myshopify.com\/products\/canticles-for-dark-lovers","provider":"Exploding Galaxies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}