From Nobel Prize winner Han Kang comes her first work of nonfiction published in English—a singular collection of writings including her inspiring Nobel Lecture. A LITERARY HUB AND ELECTRIC LIT MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR In this light-filled and multi-faceted book, Han Kang draws together the threads of her work and life, tracing the connections between her interior and exterior worlds through a sequence of essays, poems, photographs, and diaries, brilliantly translated by Maya West and e. yaewon & Paige Aniyah Morris. A book of reflections, of words and light, it has at its heart the tiny, north-facing courtyard garden at her home, cultivated solely through the reflected sunlight of the mirrors which she must move throughout the day, as the earth turns on its axis. In a poem written at eight years old, Han Kang imagined a “gold thread” of connection—an idea which she explores here with luminous attention, beginning with her Nobel Lecture. She writes of the wonder of following the thread we call language into the depths of other hearts, and her profound sense of an electric current which joins writer and reader. Both intimate and illuminating, Light and Thread is a book for all readers of Han Kang’s unique body of work.

Tanggap na ni Ryan ang pagiging may edad na single. Pero isang gabi, napadpad siya sa CR ng isang MRT station at nabulabog ang buhay niya: Matatanggap ba niyang maging isang daddy?

From Nobel Prize winner Han Kang comes her first work of nonfiction published in English—a singular collection of writings including her inspiring Nobel Lecture. A LITERARY HUB AND ELECTRIC LIT MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR In this light-filled and multi-faceted book, Han Kang draws together the threads of her work and life, tracing the connections between her interior and exterior worlds through a sequence of essays, poems, photographs, and diaries, brilliantly translated by Maya West and e. yaewon & Paige Aniyah Morris. A book of reflections, of words and light, it has at its heart the tiny, north-facing courtyard garden at her home, cultivated solely through the reflected sunlight of the mirrors which she must move throughout the day, as the earth turns on its axis. In a poem written at eight years old, Han Kang imagined a “gold thread” of connection—an idea which she explores here with luminous attention, beginning with her Nobel Lecture. She writes of the wonder of following the thread we call language into the depths of other hearts, and her profound sense of an electric current which joins writer and reader. Both intimate and illuminating, Light and Thread is a book for all readers of Han Kang’s unique body of work.

What does it mean to lose yourself – and is that something you should be aiming for? A young woman with little interest in games takes up a job in Frankfurt at a famous gaming company, naively set on reinvention. On her morning commute, in the familiar clutches of tedium and self-loathing, she encounters a nice-eyed stranger who returns her forgotten umbrella and finds herself catapulted into a dizzying, year-long whirlwind of obsession – not just with this endlessly attractive spectre, but also with the feverish karaoke trips from which she draws the ultimate solace. With astonishing existential acuity, Polly Barton's formidable debut novel renders the paradoxes of modern life in all its complexity, in deliriously self-conscious prose that is at once propulsive, titillating and bitingly funny. Echoing with the sounds of Whitney Houston and The Cure, reaching for the sublime in dark, sweaty boxes, What Am I, A Deer? is an exhilarating exploration of authenticity, fantasy, romance and intoxication. 

An electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery—a portrait of the artist as a young woman set in a Berlin that can't escape its history A girl can get in almost anywhere, even if she can’t get out. “A no-bullsh*t, must-read debut.”—Kaveh Akbar “Kaleidoscopic . . . full of style and soul.”—Raven Leilani “Radiant with longing and beauty.”—Sarah Thankham Matthews In Berlin’s artistic underground, where techno and drugs fill warehouses still pockmarked from the wars of the twentieth century, nineteen-year-old Nila at last finds her tribe. Born in Germany to Afghan parents, raised in public housing graffitied with swastikas, drawn to philosophy, photography, and sex, Nila has spent her adolescence disappointing her family while searching for her voice as a young woman and artist. Then in the haze of Berlin’s legendary nightlife, Nila meets Marlowe, an American writer whose fading literary celebrity opens her eyes to a life of personal and artistic freedom. But as Nila finds herself pulled further into Marlowe’s controlling orbit, ugly, barely submerged racial tensions begin to roil Germany—and Nila’s family and community. After a year of running from her future, Nila stops to ask herself the most important question: Who does she want to be? A story of love and family, raves and Kafka, staying up all night and surviving the mistakes of youth, Good Girl is the virtuosic debut novel by a celebrated young poet and, now, a major new voice in fiction.

FROM THE BOOK What's Cooking? "The old and the new. The provincial and the pop. The slow and the fast. The past, the present, the future. That's what's cooking in Philippine cuisine. Which means that, as the most popular (people-created, people-processed and people-consumed) segment of popular culture, it is dynamic and changing, living and lively." Writing about Food. "When one describes food, one does not use words alone, but the readers' remembering as well -- of past pleasures, savored sensations. One writes on and with the readers' palates, alluding to food tasted as children, drawing on their reservoirs of pleasure. In effect, one draws on all of the culture that shaped oneself and one's readers." On Mangoes. “... we wager that the mango memories of many a Filipino still revolve around the fruit ripening to fragrance in Maytime; around fat golden halves dripping their juice on glistening suman in Antipolo; around mangoes peeled whole with the hands on farms and at fiestas...to drip on chin and clothes; around mangoes chilled in river water rather than in refrigerators, while the feasters-to-be swim in the rivers of childhood; around mangoes sweet because stolen from consenting uncles or neighbors; around the fruit not as commercial product, but as pledge of time and season and memory."

A modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante’s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship. Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighbourhood, a city and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between her two protagonists.

Philosophical inquiry, examinations of language, and involuted domestic disputes are the focus of Lydia Davis’s inventive collection of short fiction, Almost No Memory. In each of these stories, Davis reveals an empathic, sometimes shattering understanding of human relationships.

Ineeksplor ng “Antala” ang konsepto ng pagkabalam at paghihintay bilang lunsaran ng pagmumuni sa iba’t ibang danas tungo sa pananalinghaga. May pagtatangkang tuntunin ang iba’t ibang bagabag sa mga tula sa koleksiyon. Kaabalahan sa mga tula ang pagninilay sa panahon at mga sandali para sa isang babae, manggagawa, mangingibig, o mandirigma.

"Hindi nga mga romansa ang mga kwentong narito, kundi mga transgresyon. Samantalang naaawa pa si Pascual sa mambabasa sa kanyang mga naunang libro, dito'y hindi na siya nagpapigil." - U Z. Eliserio Awtor ng Tungkol sa Aso at Apat na Putok

At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers - one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. Then, as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other. Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.

At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers - one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. Then, as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other. Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.

Eric Gamalinda's Amigo Warfare is a stunning meditation on identity and the ways we connect with ourselves, with each other, and with the world: Grief is a nation of everyone a country without borders. Gamalinda's voice soars and swoops through dazzling, heartbreaking language, offering comfort amid the grief we all share. In Gamalinda's poems, we are all alone, together.

Eric Gamalinda's Amigo Warfare is a stunning meditation on identity and the ways we connect with ourselves, with each other, and with the world: Grief is a nation of everyone a country without borders. Gamalinda's voice soars and swoops through dazzling, heartbreaking language, offering comfort amid the grief we all share. In Gamalinda's poems, we are all alone, together.

Hinawan ni Jose F. Lacaba ang landas sa paggamit ng pinakasimpleng mga salita sa makabagong panulaang Filipino. Madaling kagiliwan, magaan basahin ang kanyang mga tula, ngunit may kinang, talim, at lalim. Ang 60 tula sa kalipunang ito, pinili ng may-akda mismo, ay mula sa tatlong aklat na produkto ng mahigit sa apat na dekada ng pambeberso. Kasama rito ang mga tulang madalas ilathala sa mga antolohiya at teksbuk, tulad ng Paksiw na Ayungin, Pasyong Mahal ni San Jose, at Ang mga Kagila-gilalas na Pakikipagsapalaran ni Juan de la Cruz. Narito rin ang Prometheus Unbound, ang huling tulang Ingles na sinulat ni Lacaba, na unang nalathala sa ilalim ng sagisag at naging notoryus noong panahon ng batas militar.

Hinawan ni Jose F. Lacaba ang landas sa paggamit ng pinakasimpleng mga salita sa makabagong panulaang Filipino. Madaling kagiliwan, magaan basahin ang kanyang mga tula, ngunit may kinang, talim, at lalim. Ang 60 tula sa kalipunang ito, pinili ng may-akda mismo, ay mula sa tatlong aklat na produkto ng mahigit sa apat na dekada ng pambeberso. Kasama rito ang mga tulang madalas ilathala sa mga antolohiya at teksbuk, tulad ng Paksiw na Ayungin, Pasyong Mahal ni San Jose, at Ang mga Kagila-gilalas na Pakikipagsapalaran ni Juan de la Cruz. Narito rin ang Prometheus Unbound, ang huling tulang Ingles na sinulat ni Lacaba, na unang nalathala sa ilalim ng sagisag at naging notoryus noong panahon ng batas militar.