The Songs of Salanda and Other Stories of Sulu

by Harry Nimmo and H. Arlo Nimmo

Book Overview

In this engrossing collection of sixteen short stories, H. Arlo Nimmo tells of a young man coming of age while living among a remote cluster of islands in the southern Philippines with a people unlike... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029597334X
• ISBN13: 9780295973340
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Dignifying Research Subjects

Having visited the Philippines a number of times, I was familiar with some aspects of Nimmo's work. The Sulu region, however, had already undergone the catastrophic change he describes. It was rewarding, therefore, to learn of his experiences in the closing years of a centuries-old culture. As one who does not often read esoteric journals, I found it fortunate that he rendered this work in the fiction mode. While the stories are obviously based on real experiences, Nimmo was free to distill reality from academic jargon and share with us people who are hauntingly human, not merely distant subjects. While one or two stories may tend to be melodramatic, this is a valuable work that respectfully memorializes the vanished culture of Sulu.