Charlson Ong launches new book

"It's not only the finest novel of the last ten years, or since Charlson Ong's own centennial Prize classic Embarrassment of Riches. It's the grandest, richest, most compelling and rewarding novel celebrating the Chinese-Filipino ever written in these isles of migrant marvels.... Banyaga: A Song of War gives with enormous generosity, and does it all extraordinarily well: a novel of formidable art and prose, heart and passion, power, illumination, beauty, jubilation. humanity."

This is what the Gregorio Brilliantes had to say about Charlson Ong’s new book. Anvil Publishing, Inc. in cooperation with UP Institute of Creative Writing will be launching Banyaga: A Song of War on January 23, 2007, 6-10 pm, at the Conspiracy Bar, 59 Visayas Ave., Quezon City

Ong is a multi-awarded writer. He teaches at the UP Diliman and is a fellow of the UP ICW. Among his other books are Men of the East and Other Stories (1990 and 1999), Woman of Am-Kaw and Other Stories (1993) and Conversion and Other Fictions (1996).

For more details, contact Lina Gutierrez 637-5141 or Joyce Bersales 747-1622