With a foreword by Gina Apostol. "As a Filipino who dreams in Waray, I have waited too long for Ulir t." A groundbreaking survey of contemporary Philippine short fiction across seven different languages. TimeOut's 14 new books we're excited to read. ArtsEquator's Hot List. A man grows mushrooms from his nostrils, a town elects three mayors at the same time, a woman gives birth to a snake, and a boy wonders if his soldier father is an aswang. Ulir t: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines offers alternative visions of the islands beyond poverty and paradise. A vital survey of the richness and diversity of modern Philippine short stories, Ulira&#769; tfeatures fiction from Filipino, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Waray, Kinaray-a, and Akeanon translated into English for the first time for international audiences. Vigorous writing from Filipino writers living in different parts of the archipelago re-animate Duterte's Philippines, dramatizing everything from the drug wars, widespread corruption, and environmental degradation in surprisingly surreal and illuminating ways. Tagalog for "consciousness," the anthology champions a more expansive, nuanced conception of Filipino literature beyond the confines of English-language Filipino literature.

Ulirát: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines

Literature & Fiction

Muslim, Kristine Ong

United States

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Words Without Borders Watchlist, July 2022\nAn unprecedented collection of women’s voices from the heart of Central Asia. 
From the foreword by Gabriel Mcguire: “I cannot think of anything quite like … Amanat.”\nA man is arrested for a single typo, a woman gets on buses at random, and two friends reunite in a changed world…. Diverse in form, scope and style, Amanat brings together the voices of thirteen female Kazakhstani writers, to offer a glimpse into the many lives, stories, and histories of one of the largest countries to emerge from the breakup of the Soviet Union.\nThe twenty-four stories in Amanat, translated into English from Kazakh and Russian,comprise a groundbreaking survey of women’s writing in the Central Asian country over its thirty years of independence, paying homage to the rich but largely unrecorded oral storytelling tradition of the region. Contemplating nostalgia, politics, and intergenerational history in a time altered by modernity, Amanat acutely traces the uncertainties, struggles, joys, and losses of a corner of the post-Soviet world often unseen and overlooked.\nUtterly absorbing, Amanat is an invitation to listen—the women of Kazakhstan have stories to tell.

Amanat: Women’s Writing from Kazakhstan

Batayeva, Zaure

Short Stories & Anthologies

Memorial Club

Mahmud, Mozid

Literary

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