The Locked Door and Other Stories

by Rosario de Guzman-Lingat, Soledad S. Reyes (Translator)

The Locked Door and Other Stories collects Rosario de Guzman-Lingat's short stories chosen for the various ways they explore the female experience in all its complexity. They feature women as protagonists who, despite life's numerous blows, refuse to give in, as they strive mightily to make sense of their lives fraught with difficulties.

There are no happy endings in Lingat's fiction. There is only a steadfast, clear-eyed view of what it means to live in an unjust system where women find themselves victims. The "locked door" is symptomatic of the almost impenetrable barrier that women must force open to gain their freedom.

272 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2017

About the author

Rosario de Guzman-Lingat (1924–1997) wrote a large number of novels and short stories for the country's most popular magazines in the 1960s and 1970s. Working within the limitations of popular fiction, Lingat nonetheless succeeded in constructing narratives that shed light on the experiences of the postwar generation: family discord, psychological breakdowns due to both personal and societal traumas, the impact of the Pacific War, a deeply divided nation, and the difficulties of being a woman in a male-dominated world.

Reviews

[Devi · Rating 4 out of 5]

the stories in this anthology are definitely my kind of thing.

i'm glad i chanced upon this in my uni lib while browsing the shelves and it's high time i return this book has been sitting in my pile at home and it's not even my own bokk LOL i had an unexpected long weekend and this was rather a quick read.