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Literature · novel
Below the Crying Mountain
- Publisher
- University of the Philippines Press
- Year
- 2010
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 168
- ISBN
- 9789715426428
- Availability
- In print
Still in print: the link goes to a shop that sells it.
About the book
A novel of Sulu in the 1970s, of a Tausug family and the war that came to Jolo. It was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and won the UP Centennial Literary Prize.
This novel is set in Jolo during 2 bloody days in February 1974, under martial law, when the town burned in the fighting. It follows 2 women: Rosy France, a mestiza from Zamboanga who falls in love with a rebel leader called the Professor, and Nahla, a young Tausug woman. The Professor is a fictional figure modelled on Nur Misuari.
Criselda Yabes is a Filipino journalist and author who also wrote The Battle of Marawi. The novel won the University of the Philippines Centennial Literary Prize and was longlisted for the 2010 Man Asian Literary Prize. Penguin later republished it under the title Crying Mountain.
From globalnation.inquirer.net, csmonitor.com, thetorogichronicles.com.
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