Oroboro At Iba Pang Abiso

Mordant yet playful, cerebral yet politically engaged, Tilde Acuña’s genre-defying Oroboro at Iba Pang Abiso portrays the Philippines a century hence as a dystopian “Neon Filipino” theme park-cum-leisure city writ large and territorially divided into the naziones of Filipinorte and Pinasur, where thrive cyber siga and descendants (Ferdinand Marcos V, Snowflake Aquino VI, Princess Sarah Duterte) of familiar tyrants of the home, school, church, and state, but also denizens capable of nurturing critical thought and activist solidarities across the virtual and real worlds. — CAROLINE S. HAU Speaking as a longtime fan of Tilde Acuña’s art and not as a basic blurb provider equipped with basic intentions and pretty words for garnishing a book’s back cover, I say buy Oroboro at Iba Pang Abiso because it will reaffirm your love for subversive retellings, the narrative of the anti-narrative, the off-kilter, the absurd. Here, you get blistering irony so taut there’s no rattling its bones. You get