{"product_id":"a-very-far-place-tales-of-tawi-tawi-9789715506571","title":"A Very Far Place: Tales of Tawi-Tawi","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the mid-1960s, H. Arlo Nimmo conducted two years of anthropological field research in the Tawi-Tawi Islands of southern Philippines among the nomadic boat-dwelling Sama Dilaut. \u003cem\u003eA Very Far Place\u003c\/em\u003e was inspired by some of the people, places, and events he encountered during those years. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this collection, we read about an American man searching for a father he never knew, a Filipino man seeking beauty and comfort denied him in Manila, the tragic ill-fated voyage of a young family, a broken American expat who finds solace in classical music, a Jewish woman and a German man who carry their mutual enmity to the other side of the world, a teenage couple divided by their families’ feud, and a strange house on a river filled with dead animals. Although the stories are set in a faraway place and in a distant time, their themes still resonate in the here and now.","brand":"University of the Philippines Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047201407319,"sku":"9789715506571","price":28.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9789715506571.jpg?v=1750970652","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-very-far-place-tales-of-tawi-tawi-9789715506571","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}