Over the last thirty years, Danton Remoto has offered comfort and consistency to his readers through his travel essays in some of the biggest Filipino newspapers. Landscapes of Feeling stitches them together in a patchwork quilt, dyed in the hues of dej vu. Here is London during the time of Thatcher, and London thirty years later; the Philippines in its times of ferment; the campuses and cities of the United States; the kampung and megamalls of Kuala Lumpur. A memorable gallery of characters abound: overseas Filipino workers pining for home, young men and women striding into their destinies, foreigners in another country. Written with elegance and elan, Landscapes of Feeling explores issues of race, class, and the diaspora in Remoto’s trademark style: light but not lightweight, conversational and breezy.
