Literaturhaus Stans | Reading : “Aswanglaut / Das Meer der Aswang” By Allan Derain & Annette Hug

The signs are impossible to ignore: The girl Luklak is transforming into a crocodile. More precisely, into an aswang, a mythical creature from the Philippines. Fascinated, Luklak discovers the power of her new body, but her father despairs. In The Sea of ​​the Aswang (Unionsverlag, 2025), Allan N. Derain tells, in evocative language, of spirit beings, zealous priests and colonial rulers, of father and daughter, and the astonishing journey of one courageous girl. This novel by Allan N. Derain, winner of multiple Philippine National Book Awards, has been translated from Filipino (Tagalog) into German by Swiss author and translator Annette Hug.