This volume brings together all of Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo’s short fiction. Written over a period of almost 50 years, it showcases the originality, variety, and depth of her art. Complete Stories & Tales includes stories published in her separate, award-winning short story collections, and tales embedded in two of her novels. Jose Dalisay, Jr., much awarded novelist and short story writer, writes: “Reading Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo’s stories is much like listening to gentle rain, with a soothing cadence that both comforts but also evokes sad and painful memories of a class and a sensibility indeed an age between the very rich and very poor, the very old and the very young, when beliefs and convictions mattered and often came at a price. If there is soft power in politics, Hidalgo wields it in her fiction, in her assured and graceful prose.

1. Short stories Philippine (English).