F. Sionil Jose, Author Modern Library $19 (352p) ISBN 978-0-375-75144-8
Tapping a mostly unknown chapter in American history, Jose, one of the Philippines' most prominent authors, has created a vivid chronicle of Filipino life on the eve of the Spanish-American War. Set in the deep Filipino countryside in an area...
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F. Sionil Jose, Author Modern Library $23 (448p) ISBN 978-0-375-75243-8
The publisher has chosen to combine two novels (Tree and My Brother, My Executioner) in this second volume of the reissued Rosales Saga by Filipino writer Jos . The two works, first published in Manila in 1924, are loosely held together by geography-
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F. Sionil Jose, Author Random House (NY) $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-41360-8
Until now, the work of Jose, an author ( My Brother, My Executioner ), editor and head of the Manila PEN center, has been all but unavailable in the U.S. The novellas in this collection purport to explore the character of a Filipina and, by...
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F. Sionil Jose, Author Random House (NY) $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-42018-7
Flamboyantly injecting an aristocratic family chronicle into Philippine history, Jose (Three Filipino Women) brings a novelistic authority to match the worldly authority of his lustful, patrician protagonist. Corrupt and exploitative, Don Carlos...
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F. Sionil Jose, Author Modern Library $14.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-375-75244-5
Jos is perhaps the Philippines' most admired living novelist, best known for his Rosales series. The two novels published together here are chronologically the final installments in the saga, following Don Vicente (also comprising two novels, Tree...
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