The Lost Language

by Marianne Villanueva

The third collection from Filipino writer Marianne Villanueva, these are dark, brooding tales about characters who live on the margins — of history, of society, even of their own families — but who nevertheless manage to endure.

154 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2009

About the author

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. Her critically acclaimed first collection of short fiction, Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila (Calyx Books 1991) was shortlisted for the Philippines National Book Award. Her work has been widely anthologized. Her story, Silence, first published in the Three Penny Review, was shortlisted for the 2000 O. Henry Literature Prize, and The Hand was awarded first prize in Jukeds 2007 fiction contest. She has edited an anthology of Filipina womens writings, Going Home to a Landscape, which was selected as a Notable Book by the prestigious Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. 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. You may view her blog at http://anthropologist.wordpress.com/.

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Reviews

[roan · Rating 4 out of 5]

took me a while pero A LOT of the stories resonated with me,,, i loved “tagaytay” and “my mother’s courtship” the best!!! i hope this might break me out of my 2-year reading slump