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Literature · short stories
The White Horse of Alih and Other Stories
- Publisher
- New Day Publishers
- Year
- 1985
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 112
- ISBN
- 9789711002336
- Availability
- Out of print
No longer sold new: look for it in a library, or for a used copy.
About the book
Stories by the Zamboanga writer. In the title story a Moro man, Alih, and his brother Omar plan to attack a crowd celebrating an American holiday, and Alih turns on his brother to stop him.
Mig Alvarez Enriquez, born in 1925, was a writer from Zamboanga City whose short stories won Palanca Awards. This collection was published by New Day Publishers in Quezon City in 1985.
The title story is set on 4 July, as a town celebrates an American holiday with a parade. Alih, a young Moro, and his older brother Omar plan an attack on the crowd. The white horse of the title comes from a belief that a Moro who kills and is killed in the act will be carried to paradise on a white horse. Readers have taken the story as one of shame, honour and redemption, and of prejudice based on race and religion.
Ma. Teresa Padilla reviewed the book in the journal Philippine Studies in 1987.
From archium.ateneo.edu, filipinaslibrary.org.ph, openlibrary.org.
Cover from Open Library, shown to identify the book; its rights stay with the publisher.
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