WINGS OF STONE, a novel by award winning Filipino author, Linda Ty-Casper, was banned in the Philippines during Dictator Marcos' regime. The powerful book is about Johnny Manalo who returns to the Philippines after a thirteen-year absence. By this time, Aquino has been assassinated and the country is immersed in corruption. The novel focuses on his inner thoughts; the horrors of the twilight years of the Marcos regime glow through the haze, making the book significant. The author, Linda Ty-Casper is noted for her historical fiction set in the Philippines during key historical events. Her literary work, which has received international acclaim, is considered a significant contribution of Filipino, Philippine, American, as well as Asian American literature.

PRAISE:

"This is a provocative novel about a Filipino who, on the eve of the recent revolution, returns home after living in the United States for 13 years. Ty-Casper, author of Awaiting Trespass, traces the man's inner thoughts as he gropes for meaning in a land pervaded by corruption and incongruities of nightmarish proportions and where the violence of the dying regime is a principle of life." ~ Publishers Weekly, 1986

"The Philippines, two years prior to the ouster of Marcos, is the setting for Ty-Casper's second novel to be published in the States (the first was Awaiting Trespass, 1986). And as this talented writer portrays it, it is a country in its darkest hour, where death squads take the lives of the defenseless with utter indiscriminateness, where the homeless and the hungry roam the streets of Manila while Madame Imelda refers to them as "economic saboteurs." ... Ty-Casper's writing is hypnotic and elliptical, her novel's plot a loose connection of nightmarish incidents, her characters sometimes indistinct. But the horrors of the twilight years of the Marcos regime glow through the haze, making the book significant." ~ Kirkus Review, 1986