Chuckberry J. Pascual is a novelist, translator, and scholar. He has written novels, short story collections, and books of literary criticism, including The Vanished, A Country of Corpses, and Mars, Zombies Are Coming! He teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Santo Tomas and holds a PhD in Creative Writing in Filipino from the University of the Philippines.
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A CREATIVE WRITING professor is set to explore more politically pronounced themes in his sequel to his award-winning young adult novel Mars, May Zombie! to amplify class division in a post-pandemic society.
Picking up a year after Mars and his group arrive in the blue zone and illustrating how their invasion of the area fails, Assoc. Prof. Chuckberry Pascual’s Mars, Maraming Zombie! tackles a revolution and divisive politics in a setting that he said mirrors present-day Philippines.
The wit is never cruel; the tenderness never cloying. Laughter comes first in Pascual’s comedy-crime fiction hybrids, then the sobering recognition that, like all good jokes, the punchline has teeth and truth. You keep turning pages because every disappearance suggests a larger absence you can’t quite name yet.
And that is the book’s very insistence. In a country where absence can feel like a habit, paying attention is an act of care. Ang Nawawala asks what else we have misplaced — people, chances, histories — and what it would take to claim them back.
The novel is also available in English as The Vanished, translated by Ned Parfan and published by Avenida Books.
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