Cuentos Filipinos, Jose Montero y Vidal, 1883, translated by Renan Prado
- Philippines, #5
- Borrowed from SF public library
- Read October 2017
- Rating: 2/5
- Recommended for: Miss Eleanor Lavish
Cuentos Filipinos: Colonialism and condescension
Asian Literature
Florante at Laura: Two guys crying in a forest, essentially
The History of Florante and Laura in the Kingdom of Albania: Adapted from some “historical pictures” or paintings of what happened in early times in the Greek Empire, and were set to rhyme by one delighting in Tagalog verse, Francisco Balagtas, 1861
- Philippines, #4
- Read online
- Read: August 2017
- Rating: 4/5
- Recommended for: imprecise Romanticists and their kick-ass girlfriends
Darangen: too epic for me
Darangen: in original Maranao verse with English translation, vol. I, Anon. (oral epic), transcribed by Hadji Lawa Cali et al., translated by Ma. Delia Coronel, 1986 (original composition sometime before the 14th century)
- Philippines, #1
- Borrowed from San Francisco Public Library (via interlibrary loan)
- Read October 2017
- Rating 3/5
- Recommended for: scholars, princesses in towers, and other people with lots of time on their hands
Potions and Paper Cranes: a bunch of bad things happen to a bunch of unlikeable people
Potions and Paper Cranes, Lan Fang, 2013
- Indonesia, #21
- Kindle edition, $10
- Read August 2017
- Rating: 2/5
- Recommended for: an additional perspective on race and gender in World War II-era Indonesia (but only if you’ve already read everything else)
Daughters of Papua: Life’s a bitch. You know the rest.
Daughters of Papua, Anindita S. Thayf, 2009
- Indonesia, #18
- Borrowed from SF public library (via Link+)
- Read August 2017
- Rating: 2.5/5
- Recommended for: People who found Bambi just a bit too lighthearted
The Birth of I La Galigo: Intense pregnancy cravings, eggs of unknown provenance
The Birth of I La Galigo: A poem inspired by the Bugis legend of the same name, Mohamad Salim, Sapardi Djoko Damono, and John H. McGlynn
- Indonesia, #17
- Borrowed from SF library (interlibrary loan)
- Read August 2017
- Rating: 3/5
- Recommended for: lazy folklorists
A Very Sleep-deprived Assessment of “The Rainbow Troops,” or, Adventures in Toddler Jet Lag
The Rainbow Troops, Andrea Hirata, 2005
- Indonesia, #16
- Kindle edition, $10.00 from Amazon
- Read July 2017
- Rating: 4/5
- Recommended for: Bad news bears
The Original Dream: A very inaccurate synopsis
The Original Dream, Nukila Amal, 2003, translated by Linda Owens, 2017
- Indonesia, #15
- Kindle edition, $1.99 from Amazon
- Read July 2017
- Rating: 2.5/5
- Recommended for: hot messes
Beauty is a Wound
Beauty is a Wound, Eka Kurniawan, 2002
- Indonesia, #14
- Borrowed from SF library
- Read August 2017
- Rating: 4.5/5
- Recommended for: Anyone longing for a 100 Years of Solitude update written by Chuck Palahniuk
- Content warning (after the jump): sexual assault
The Weaverbirds: Eyes are not like guns OR nipples, pick another metaphor please
The Weaverbirds, Y.B. Mangunwijaya, 1981
- Indonesia, #10
- Kindle, $10 on Amazon.com
- Read June 2017
- Rating: 2.5/5
- Recommended for: boring people
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