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Bata, Bata…
Pa’no Ka
Ginawa?
lualhati bautista
ISBN: 978-971-19-0097-1
Edition: Softbound
Language: Filipino
Pages: 256
Size: 4” x 7
Dekada ‘70
Ang Orihinal
at Kumpletong
Edisyon
lualhati bautista
ISBN: 978-971-19-0130-7
Edition: Softbound
Language: Filipino
Pages: 236
Size: 4” x 7”
desaparesidos
lualhati bautista
ISBN: 978-971-27-3136-5
Edition: Newsprint
Language: Filipino
Pages: 236
Size: 4” x 6”
Co-Winner, Grand Prize for the Novel
(Filipino), Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for
Literature, 1984
This work paints a colorful portrait of the
contemporary Filipina in the person of its
heroine Lea, a schoolteacher. It depicts
the joys and sorrows, the ups and downs,
of trying to live an honorable life as a
compassionate teacher, a nurturing single
mother of two children, and a lover with a
strong sense of self.
Co-Winner, Grand Prize for the Novel
(Filipino), Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for
Literature, 1983
The Bartolome family seems to fare well even in
the midst of the Martial Law era, until the eldest
son, Jules, joins the revolutionary movement. As
the family’s ties are threatened by the atrocities of a
dictatorial government and dissenting sociopolitical
views, will Amanda, the mother and heroine of the
story, be able to keep her family together—and at
the same time find answers to her questions about
her identity and place in the family and the society?
Anna, once a revolutionary in the heat of
the Martial Law era, is recovering from her
traumatic past and still searching for her
long-lost daughter. Will she be able to find
the peace and healing she has been seeking,
twenty years after the dictator’s eviction?
Desaparesidos, like its equally highly
successful predecessor Dekada ‘70,
is a brutally honest, provocative and
heartrending novel about love and loss amid
sociopolitical chaos.
‘Gapô
(at isang puting
Pilipino, sa mundo
ng mga Amerikanong
kulay brown)
lualhati bautista
ISBN: 978-971- 19-0115-3
Edition: Softbound
Language: English/Filipino
Pages: 160
Size: 4” x 7”
Michael “Mike” Taylor, Jr., a musician, might be fair-skinned,
but he believes it’s pure Filipino blood that flows in his
veins. Modesto, a Filipino working in the US military base,
is derided by the Americans who has the same respectable
position as his in the military base. Magdalena, a prostitute,
and Ali, a gay dad, both fall in love with American soldiers
based in Olongapo, only to be left with broken hearts.
These are but a few of the people you will meet in Freedom Pad,
the nightclub near the US military base in ‘Gapô. The novel is a
searing, dramatic exposé of colonial mentality and discrimination
that still plague the Philippine society even nowadays.
Lualhati Bautista is one of the
country’s most prominent and
multiawarded contemporary Tagalog
fiction writers. She has written short
stories, teleplays, screenplays, and
novels, which include the Carlos
Palanca Memorial Awards for
Literature Grand Prize Winners Gapô
(1980), Dekada '70 (1983), and Bata,
Bata...Pa'no Ka Ginawa? (1984).
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