The Kite of Stars and Other Stories

10 best books like The Kite of Stars and Other Stories (Dean Francis Alfar): Alternative Alamat: Stories Inspired by Philippine Mythology, Dusk, Project 17, Si Janus Sílang at ang Labanáng Manananggal-Mambabarang, Tabi Po: Isyu 1, Kung Alam N'yo Lang, Ilayo Mo Kami Sa Apoy Ng Impyerno!, Mga Agos sa Disyerto, High Tide at Midnight, After Eden

Alternative Alamat: Stories Inspired by Philippine Mythology

Author	Paolo Chikiamco
ISBN	9719942150

Philippine mythology is full of images that ignite the imagination: gods of calamity and baldness, of cosmic time and lost things; the many-layered Skyworld, and weapons that fight their own battles; a ship that is pulled to paradise by a chain, and a giant crab that controls the tides . . . Yet too few...

Dusk

Author	F. Sionil José
ISBN	0375751440

With Dusk (originally published in the Philippines as Po-on), F. Sionil Jose begins his five-novel Rosales Saga, which the poet and critic Ricaredo Demetillo called "the first great Filipino novels written in English." Set in the 1880s, Dusk records the exile of a tenant family from its village and...

Project 17

Author	Eliza Victoria
ISBN	9710545256

Lillian is merely looking for a babysitting job for the summer, but a desperate man named Paul Dolores hires her to look after his 28-year-old brother, Caleb. Caleb is suffering from schizoaffective disorder, and Paul, who is about to start on his first office job in a long while, wants to make sure his...

Si Janus Sílang at ang Labanáng Manananggal-Mambabarang

Author	Edgar Calabia Samar
ISBN	9715085660

APAT NA BUWAN NA SI JANUS SA MANSIYON NINA MANONG JOEY SA AGONO PERO NAROON PA RIN ANG SAKIT NG DILANG-KARAYOM NG MANANANGGAL SA PUSO NIYA DAHIL SA PAGKAWALA NG MGA MAHAL SA BUHAY AT SAPILITANG PAGLAYO KAY MICA.

Simula ng Christmas break nang mawasak ang proteksiyon ng mansiyon laban sa Tiyanak...

Tabi Po: Isyu 1

Author	Mervin Malonzo
ISBN	9710545345

★ National Book Awardee for Graphic Literature (Filipino) ★

Isang lalake ang bigla na lamang nagising sa loob ng isang puno sa gitna ng kagubatan na walang alaala kung sino siya at saan siya nagmula. Ang tanging alaala lang niya ay isang imahe ng babae na nakikita niya sa kanyang panaginip,...

Kung Alam N'yo Lang

Author

Ricky Lee

Tunay na marka: 4.5

"Mga kuwentong pambata para sa mga hindi na bata."

Totoong-totoo. May pagka-dark kasi ang apat na kwento sa bagong librong ito ni Ricky Lee. Mali pala, actually, dark talaga sila. And it's even getting darker along the way, I love it!

1. Ang Nawawalang Diyos...

Ilayo Mo Kami Sa Apoy Ng Impyerno!

Author	Manix Abrera
ISBN	9710545205

Pain Pain Go Away, Angel of Dead Air, Cosmic Rule ng mga Taxi, The Vitruvian Man!, Dilang Anghel, Life and Depth, Probability ng Probability Theory, Death by Logic, Never Trust the Devil!, Death by Logic!, Bless You, Tila Luwang Kaluluwa, Mas Masklap Ang Buhay Kapag Finast-Forward, Ikakasal Ka Na,...

Mga Agos sa Disyerto

Author	Efren R. Abueg
ISBN	9711704889

Gaya ng pagunita ng isang guro-kritiko ukol sa kultura sa kabataang manunulat na "sulat nang sulat nang walang alam" sa kasaysayan ng panitikan ng Pilipinas (sa lahat ng wikang ginagamit sa bansa), "makabubuti sa kanila ang lumingon sa lumipas" at tuklasin ang naging papel ng "Agos sa Disyerto" sa...

High Tide at Midnight

Author	Budjette Tan
ISBN	9710545469

The unceasing rain muffles the screams of the victims being pulled down, down into the murky flood waters.
In the places too high to be reached by the flood, the party continues for the privileged, who indulge in a new designer drug which grants them the supernatural abilities of enkanto and aswang.
These...

After Eden

Author

Arnold Arre

Ultimately, After Eden can be summed up in these words: “For every two people who fall in love, Adam and Eve are reborn.” - Arnold Arre, September 2002

After Eden tells the story of Celine and Jon, estranged childhood friends who bonded over nasty pranks and seesaws. A mall brawl and an automobile...

Ang Mundong Ito ay Lupa

Author	Edgardo M. Reyes
ISBN	9715844189

Now, my problem is how to translate the title for the sake of my non-Filipino friends. Ang Mundong Ito ay Lupa literally means "This Earth is Soil" but that is a stupid translation. If I understood the metaphor of Reyes, what he meant by the title was that each of us: men or women, rich or poor, young or old,...

Catch A Falling Star

Author	Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo
ISBN	9712708772

They say that childhood memories are really meant to guide us during our adulthood. That they can help predict our behaviors as adult. If these are true, then I am not surprised that the author of this book is one of the most respected writers and literature professors in the country. She is Dr. Cristina...

Tropical Gothic

Author	Nick Joaquín
ISBN	0702207764

Tropical Gothic is an intense collection of stories that includes the "Summer Solstice", which inspired the local film Tatarin; Candido's Apocalypse, "a twisted coming-of-age story on finding identity in the grossly obvious; "Doña Jeronima", the legend of the nymph and her lover in a cave by the...

Soledad's Sister

Author	José Y. Dalisay Jr.
ISBN	9712720837

A casket arrives at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila, bearing the body of a woman manifested as "Aurora V. Cabahug" - one of over 600 overseas Filipino workers who return as corpses to this airport every year. The real Aurora, however, is very much alive, a karaoke-bar singer in the distant...