Love without a Heart

Love without a Heart gives an intimate portrait of Filipino life in a transformed and conservative Manila during the American period. While still in high school, Sela gets drawn into an affair with poet and journalist Fidel, who turns out to be long betrothed to another. The disastrous affair costs Sela her reputation and takes her life off course. With society’s harsh judgment on women constantly looming, will Sela find her feet again?

Translated for the first time into English by Soledad S. Reyes, this Tagalog classic by Iñigo Ed. Regalado shows a woman, caught in a new colonial regime, empowered to forge an identity anew out of patriarchal failures and to rise from love’s disillusions.

Published in 2024.