Tsinoy Lit Bundle

Sojourner, Settler, Seer: The Complete Stories of Charlson Ong
 
These thirty-four stories are collected from Charlson Ong’s four compilations of his fiction published in a span of four decades, plus his never-before anthologized first published story and 2018 Likhaan journal story. The final story is published here for the first time. The themes cover Chinese heritage, which is a particular concern of the famed Chinese-Filipino author, strained relationships, and historical and socio-political issues. Principally realistic, the stories at times veer into the territory of fantasy.
 
Ongpin Stories by R. Kwan Laurel
Digging our chopsticks into these eight stories, we examine a teenage boy raised in a strict Chinese household struggling to pass his Mandarin lessons; a radical teacher whose pure motives yield to miscalculated actions; a policeman and his insane friend's search for gold; a mathematical genius who dreams of leaving for Hong Kong; a Filipino sales clerk and his forbidden fondness for the eldest daughter of a Chinese businessman; a grandmother fighting an illness neither traditional medicine nor modern science can cure; a father's struggle to preserve his family's small business.