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Dusk : A Novel
[Buy it!] | F. Sionil Jose | USD 22.29
(Thu May 23 21:13:18 2024) | AbebooksDE | AHA-BUCH GmbH | ISBN10: 0375751440, ISBN13: 9780375751448, [publisher: Random House USA Inc Apr 1998] Softcover Neuware - With Dusk (originally published in the Philippines as Po-on), F. Sionil Jose begins his five-novel Rosales Saga, which the poet and critic Ricaredo Demetillo called 'the first great Filipino novels written in English.' Set in the 1880s, Dusk records the exile of a tenant family from its village and the new life it attempts to make in the small town of Rosales. Here commences the epic tale of a family unwillingly thrown into the turmoil of history. But this is more than a historical novel; it is also the eternal story of man's tortured search for true faith and the larger meaning of existence. Jose has achieved a fiction of extraordinary scope and passion, a book as meaningful to Philippine literature as One Hundred Years of Solitude is to Latin American literature.'The foremost Filipino novelist in English, his novels deserve a much wider readership than the Philippines can offer.'--Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books'Tolstoy himself, not to mention Italo Svevo, would envy the author of this story.'--Chicago Tribune
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 1998]
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