The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gothic

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Celebrating the centennial of his birth, the first-ever U.S. publication of Philippine writer Nick Joaquin's seminal works, with a foreword by PEN/Open Book Award–winner Gina Apostol Nick Joaquin is widely considered one of the greatest Filipino writers, but until now he has remained little-known outside his home country. Joaquin wrote in English with the post-colonial sensibilities of Junot Diaz, Teju Cole, and Jhumpa Lahiri and an ironic perspective of colonial history in the vein of Garcia Marquez and Vargas Llosa. His work meditates on the questions and challenges of the Filipino individual's new freedom after centuries of colonialism, exploring folklore, centuries-old Catholic rites, the Spanish colonial past, and the post-war dilemmas of reconstruction written in a style that would later be associated with magical realism, brimming with baroque splendor and excess. This collection features his best-known stories, including "The Woman Who Had Two Navels"...