2012
First Published
4.05
Average Rating
206
Number of Pages
Tinitingnan dito ang larawan ng manananggal bilang musa at talinhaga sa pagkatha ng nobela. Samantalang sinisikap sagutin ang mga tanong kung anong kasaysayan ang nililingon sa pagususlat at kung paano't bakit kakatha ng nobela sa harap ng mga hamon ng kasalukuyan, sinisiyasat din ang manananggal bilang larawan ng pag-iisa't pagiging iba, ang pangangailangan nitong magbagong-anyo, pumailanlang, at pumaslang, bago sa bandang huli'y magbalik sa pagiging tao't manindigan.
Avg Rating
4.05
Number of Ratings
66
5 STARS
44%
4 STARS
27%
3 STARS
23%
2 STARS
2%
1 STARS
5%
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Author
Edgar Samar
Author · 18 books
Edgar Calabia Samar is a multi-awarded poet and novelist from the Philippines. His first novel, Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog, received the NCCA Writer’s Prize in 2005, and its English translation as Eight Muses of the Fall was longlisted in the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2009. In 2013, he received two Philippine National Book Awards––one for his second novel, Sa Kasunod ng 909 (Best Novel), and another for his book on the creative process, Halos Isang Buhay: Ang Manananggal sa Pagsusulat ng Nobela (Best Book of Criticism). Si Janus Silang at ang Tiyanak ng Tabon, the first book in his YA series Janus Silang, also received the Philippine National Book Award for Best Novel in 2015 and the Philippine National Children’s Book Award for Best 2014-2015 Read in 2016. He has also received prizes for his poetry and fiction from the Palanca and the PBBY-Salanga Writer’s Prize. His other books include Pag-aabang sa Kundiman: Isang Tulambuhay, a poetry collection, and 101 Kagila-gilalas na Nilalang, a children's encyclopedia of Philippine fantastic creatures. In 2010, he was invited as writer-in-residence to the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa.
