Edgar Calabia Samar Libri
Edgar Calabia Samar è un acclamato poeta e romanziere filippino le cui opere si immergono spesso nelle profondità della mitologia e del folklore filippino. La sua scrittura è caratterizzata da un linguaggio ricco e da uno stile ipnotico, che trasporta i lettori in mondi pieni di fantasia e creature magiche. Samar esplora temi di identità, memoria e le intricate connessioni tra passato e presente. Attraverso le sue narrazioni e poesie, offre una prospettiva unica sulla cultura filippina e le sue tradizioni soprannaturali, arricchendo il panorama letterario.
"If Britons have Harry Potter and Americans have Percy Jackson, we Filipinos have Janus Silang." --Bongbong Books Review Following a grisly encounter with the Tiyanak, an evil creature from Philippine folklore, Janus Silang realizes that nothing in his life will ever be the same again. He and his family are now the targets of a powerful force that must be destroyed. Janus and his friends escape to Kalibutan, where the Tiyanak cannot follow. There, he searches for Tala, the Tiyanak's goddess twin and the only being with the power to defeat it. This quest leads him again to the word of online gaming, where to his great dismay he discovers that he is not the only one seeking her! The second volume in the Janus Silang series, Janus Silang and the Struggle for Kalibutan is adapted from the award-winning novel by Edgar Calabia Samar, one of Asia's best-known writers and multiple winner of the Philippine National Book Award.