Barcelona
2023
19th Avenida Publishijng House
About the author:
Criselda Yabes, a journalist since the 1980s, wrote her first book on the military in 1991. She lived in France for six years, returning to Manila in 2006. Yabes won the University of the Philippines Centennial Literary Prize and was nominated for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2010. Her second novel, "Broken Islands," published in 2019 by Ateneo de Manila University Press, was shortlisted by German Litprom and presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2022. "The Battle of Marawi," a 2020 release, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2022, showcasing Yabes' enduring impact on literary journalism.
Born in the Philippines, Yabes has a passion for travel, culture, and adventure. While English is her native language, she is fluent in Tagalog and French, with a basic proficiency in Spanish.
Achievements:
- November 2020: Recipient of the Glory Awards, one of the outstanding alumni of the College of Mass Communication of the University of the Philippines-Diliman in the category of literary journalism.
- September-October 2018, research fellow, The Japan Foundation Asia Center, under the guidance of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. Subject of research: Japanese writer Ooka Shohei on the World War II in the Philippines.
- 2017: Recipient of the ‘Gawad Alagad ni Francisco Balagtas,’ a lifetime achievement award for literary writing, in Essay and Fiction in English, from the Writers’ Union of the Philippines (UMPIL).
About the book:
Title: Barcelona
Publisher: 19th Avenida Publishijng House
Year: 2023
Language: English
Page number: 114 pages
Size (mm): 139.7 x 215.9
Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN: 978-6218264-23-6
Keywords: Dystopian, climate fiction, drug war
Synopsis:
Set in 2050, this dystopian graphic novella follows Barcelona, a woman who leads a gang of orphans from the Drug War in vanishing Manila, a city that is slowly sinking underwater. A young officer from the south, which has separated itself from the rest of the old country, tries to rescue her from doom. A complex history of fates comes in between, as Barcelona must decide whether to join a new world of harmony led by oracle women and sustained by a stable ecosystem with nature. Or is the violence of the past so ingrained in her veins that leaving seems impossible?
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