Fraying at the edge of a life lived uselessly, an old man ponders over things that were and things that may have been. A vanishing guerilla, a knife fight across the ocean, a chat with a friend come back from the dead. In these tales of doubles, delusions, and self-deceit, A Natural History of Empire challenges us to question who we truly are and who we want to become.
Dominic Sy teaches at the Department of English and Comparative Literature in the University of the Philippines Diliman. His work has appeared in the Transpacific Literary Project, The Literary Apprentice, and transit: an online journal, among other publications. He lives in Metro Manila.
