Yniga

Winner of a Philippine National Book Award

âY±iga is not just a novel; it is an echo of people, of families, who, generation after generation, confront the relentless cycle of political violence.â Eka Kurniawan

Y±iga Calinauanâs quiet existence in Manila is upended when a biographer starts asking questions about her activist father who disappeared years earlier.

Soon after, a former army general is arrested across the road from her home, and her neighborhood is burnt to the ground. With nowhere to go, Y±iga returns to the small fishing town of her childhood. But the boundaries between her various lives are beginning to crumble.

Set against a backdrop of political upheaval, Y±iga is both a compulsive thriller and a literary treasure. Multi-award-winning author Glenn Diaz forms a complex portrait of a woman and a country haunted by a âforest of historyâ. This is a novel about the routine violence of state terror â" and the possibility of everyday resistance.

âDiazâs fierce and articulate intellect dazzles in his very evocative and at times funny but mostly deadpan and wry prose. He has captured the often absurd and peculiar life in the Philippines with a fond but critical eye.â Asian Review of Books

âThis moving, remarkable novel is as much a visceral, unforgettable journey into one womanâs fraught familial legacy of disappearance and resistance, as well as a deeply poignant meditation on nation-building itself.â  Elaine Castillo