‘MUROS: WITHIN MAGICAL WALLS’

In a whimsical, gripping story that could only come from the imaginations of Paolo Chikiamco and Borg Sinaban, “Muros,” out now from international publisher Tuttle Publishing, is set in a parallel Manila where the city has been isolated from the rest of the world for years. Just recently liberated from an oppressive dictatorship, the walled Manila is now the site of tension between the humans and the magical creatures living within. Detective (“taga-sagot”) Caloy Loyzaga is on the trail of a missing child—but all is not what it seems.