Half-Forgotten Things focuses on the Aberasturis, a prominent Spanish Basque family in Malitbog, a town in Southern Leyte, the Philippines. The memoir opens as Txomin Aberasturi returns to his hometown for a visit after a long absence. From the landscape, memories arise and are vividly recounted. We become familiar with the family's successful shipping and export business. We are presented with anecdotes of family adventures, which touch a universal human chord. When Txomin is eight years old, Pearl Harbor is bombed and life on the Philippines, and everywhere else, changes dramatically. There...

Cosas Medio Olvidadas' enfoca la atencion en la familia Aberasturi, una prominente familia espanola-vascongada de Malitbog, un pueblo en la isla de Leyte Sur, Filipinas. Las memorias comienzan cuando Txomin Aberasturi vuelve a su pueblo natal para visitar a su familia, despues de una larga ausencia. Del paisaje, lleno de colores, sonidos y aromas, y de encuentros con sus seres queridos, recuerdos aparecen y se levantan, y son recontados con intensa viveza. Nos presenta anecdotas de una familia, sus aventuras, rinas y escandalos, que aunque tuvieron lugar en otra epoca y tiempo, toca una...

When Shadows Fall is a novel timeless in its appeal, involving, as any great novel does, our deepest passions. Set in New York, the Philippines and Los Angeles in the 1960s, the three main characters - Denis, a well-known opera singer and movie actor living in Los Angeles, Laura, an architect, and Joe, her cousin - each compel our attention both as individuals and as people intertwined in one another's lives. The loving bond that forms between Denis and Laura is the focal point of the book. The ties between them are, from the beginning, unbreakable, and it is Denis who knows this even amidst...