CECILIA MANGUERRA BRAINARD: PHILIPPINE AMERICAN WRITER CALIFORNIA CEBU WHEN THE RAINBOW GODDESS WEPT

WHEN THE RAINBOW GODDESS WEPT

by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

$17.95

University of Michigan Press
Ann Arbor Paperbacks
ISBN 0472086375
1999, 216 pages

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First published in the Philippines as Song of Yvonne. Published in hardcover by Dutton in 1994, and in paperback by Plume in 1995, and now available from the University of Michigan Press.

Turkish Edition: Gokkusagi Tanricasi Agladigunda (Turkish edition of When the Rainbow Goddess Wept), Bilge Kultur Sanat, translated by Fusun Talay, 2001

This highly-acclaimed novel, set in mythical Ubec, Philippines during World War II, is a lyrical portrayal of a girl's blossoming into young womanhood. Publishers Weekly notes that "the strengthening of the national spirit; the loss of innocence in two generations -- these themes are explored by the author... with persuasive conviction and stark realism.

What Critics Say

"Interweaves realistic events with myths of women fighters and goddesses, as well as fantastic dreams...Brainard's appealing characters are larger than life, people who change before our eyes, yet remain utterly convincing....A fast-paced, sensitively written first novel." (Kirkus Reviews)

"The strengthening of the national spirit; the loss of innocence in two generations - these themes are explored by the author, who was born in the Philippines, with persuasive conviction and stark realism." (Publishers Weekly)

"Stories of war are perhaps most compelling when told through the eyes of children, whose innocence is always so tragically incongruous to the adult madness that rages around them. "When the Rainbow Goddess Wept," a first novel by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard that chronicles the Japanese invasion of the Philippines during World War II, is no exception." (Los Angeles Times)

"Enchanting throughout, this novel will mesmerize the reader right up until its victorious ending." (Booklist)

"With the eye and ear of a born storyteller, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard has given us a deeply moving novel of a young girl's coming of age in the Japanese-occupied Philippines of the Second World War...Steeped in an Asian culture's colorful and healing mythology, When the Rainbow Goddess Wept is destined to become a classic." (Aram Saroyan, author of The Street and Friends in the World: The Education of a Writer)

CLICK BELOW FOR BOOK REVIEWS OF WHEN THE RAINBOW GODDESS WEPT.

BOOKLIST - September 1, 1994

LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW - Tuesday, November 15, 1994

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - August 16, 1994

POETS & WRITERS INTERVIEW OF CECILIA BRAINARD BY DANA HUEBLER - 1997

LEONARD CASPER'S ESSAY ABOUT SONG OF YVONNE OR WHEN THE RAINBOW GODDESS WEPT - 1996

HOPE SABAN-PAN YU'S PAPER ON WHEN THE RAINBOW GODDESS WEPT AND BRAINARD, WITH COMMENTS BY BRAINARD - 2008

ALLEN GABORRO REVIEWS OF NOLI ME TANGERE (BY JOSE RIZAL) & WHEN THE RAINBOW GODDESS WEPT (BY CECILIA MANGUERRA BRAINARD) - 2006

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