A Bottle of Storm Clouds

by Eliza A Victoria, Karen Francisco (Illustrator)

Overview

In "A Bottle of Storm Clouds", award-winning author Eliza Victoria conjures a captivating collection of sixteen short stories where the ordinary and the extraordinary collide. From chicken-legged men to pawnshop goddesses, from enchanted forests to otherworldly MRT stations, these tales offer a mesmerizing blend of Filipino folklore and contemporary imagination.

With characters both familiar and fantastical, Victoria's masterful storytelling transports readers to worlds both wondrous and unsettling. Whether it's a girl's encounter with the mythical or a man's journey into the unknown, each story is a unique fusion of magic and the mundane. Featuring stories previously lauded in Philippine Speculative Fiction and Alternative Alamat, as well as prize-winning narratives from the Philippines Free Press Literary Awards and the Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio Literary Contest, "A Bottle of Storm Clouds" is a must-read for fans of magical realism and Filipino literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9786218264311
Publisher:	19th Avenida Publishing House
Publication date:	08/24/2024
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.51(d)

About the Author

Eliza Victoria is the author of several books including the Philippine National Book Award-winning "Dwellers", the novel "Wounded Little Gods", the graphic novel "After Lambana" (a collaboration with Mervin Malonzo), and the science fiction novel-in-stories, "Nightfall". She has won prizes in the Philippines' top literary awards, including the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. Her one-act plays, written in Filipino, have been staged at the Virgin LabFest at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Dwellers, Wounded Little Gods, and After Lambana were released worldwide by Tuttle Publishing in 2022. Visit her at elizavictoria.com