Below the Crying Mountain
by Criselda Yabes
162 pages· ISBN 9789715426428
About
Gawad Likhaan: The UP Centennial Literary Prize Winner
This award is given in recognition of the novel, Below the Crying Mountain, which represents a new voice in Philippine fiction in English. The conflict in Mindanao, and the price paid for it by the people who live through it, does not often find its way unto the pages of fiction. Criselda Yabes does not flinch in the potrayal of the dismal situation, presenting it in a manner both intelligent and moving. At the same time, its vision does not exclude hope and triumph of human courage and love.
In Below the Crying Mountain, the Moro rebellion that broke out in Sulu in the 1970s and that continues to wound the nation is seen vividly thought the lives of the mestiza Rosy Wright, the Tausug girl Nahla, the rebel leader Prof. Hassan, the soldier Captain Rodolfo as well as in the quest of the book's narrator. The personal is political as war fuels the clash of emotions, histories, and cultures.
--Charlson Ong
This award is given in recognition of the novel, Below the Crying Mountain, which represents a new voice in Philippine fiction in English. The conflict in Mindanao, and the price paid for it by the people who live through it, does not often find its way unto the pages of fiction. Criselda Yabes does not flinch in the potrayal of the dismal situation, presenting it in a manner both intelligent and moving. At the same time, its vision does not exclude hope and triumph of human courage and love.
In Below the Crying Mountain, the Moro rebellion that broke out in Sulu in the 1970s and that continues to wound the nation is seen vividly thought the lives of the mestiza Rosy Wright, the Tausug girl Nahla, the rebel leader Prof. Hassan, the soldier Captain Rodolfo as well as in the quest of the book's narrator. The personal is political as war fuels the clash of emotions, histories, and cultures.
--Charlson Ong
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