Mass

F. Sionil José

Solidaridad Publishing House, Manila

Viajero is a novel of history of the Philippine Islands and their people long before the Spaniards came. It is also the story of the Filipino diaspora as seen by an orphan who is brought by an American captain to the United States in 1945. Through the eyes of Salvador dela Raza unfolds the epic voyage of the Filipino, from the earliest contact with China through Magellan's tragedy in Mactan, onto the heroic voyage of the galleons across the Pacific. The VIAJERO story concludes with the movement of Filipino workers to the Middle East, and the travail of Filipino women in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tokyo.

Viajero (A Filipino Novel)

Solidaridad Pub. House

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.

Po-On

Solidaridad Publishing House

With the publication of this novel, F. Sionil José completes his major work -- the Rosales saga. PO-ON starts it all. Set in Ilokos in the 1880's, it records the fight of a tenant family from its village to the plains of eastern Pangasinan. But more than a story of escape from Spanish tyranny, it is also one man's tortured search for true faith and the larger meaning of his own existence, a search which propels him across the wilderness to the plain, then back, to the hostile roof of the Ilokos in the Cordilleras. Here then is the beginning of an epic story which courses through four other novels -- TREE, MY BROTHER MY EXECUTIONER, THE PRETENDERS and culminates with MASS which the scholar-critic, Isagani R. Cruz, considers as "one of the greatest Filipino novels of all time." Independent of each other, these five novels sweep through Philippine history, encompassing four generations -- an achievement which the poet-critic Ricaredo Demetillo recognizes as "the first great Filipino novels written in English -- the most impressive legacy of any writer to the Philippine culture.

PO-ON: A Novel (Philippine Import)

Ermita is the story of an enclave of privilege and affluence, and the putrefaction of a society. Here is Manila-before 1941, during the tumultuous years of the Japanese Occupation, and the corrupt Marcos regime.

Ermita (A Filipino Novel)

Solidaridad/PALH

Tree is a story of a boy growing up in a small Ilokano town, surrounded by friends bedlow his social class, by relatives and doting servants who have served his family all their lives. It is also a story of oppression and compassion. TREE belongs to Francisco Sionil Jose's largest body of work known as the Rosales novels. Like much of his fiction, it depicts man's continuing and often futile search for justice and a moral order.

Tree

We Filipinos: Our moral malaise, our heroic heritage

THE GOD STEALER, F. Sionil Jose's most widely anthologized fiction, is a moving story of friendship. An American and a Filipino go to the Cordilleras to look at the rice terraces which were built by the Filipino's ancestors. There, they find the meaning of their friendship, how it defines the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized.

The God Stealer

Solidaridad

Ben Singkol (A Novel) Philippine Import

As a sequel to Why We Are Poor , this essay collection by the country’s most widely translated writer enlarges on the themes that have defined his oeuvre in the last six decades. Worth noting are the challenging statements on colonialism and the colonized mind — a condition which many Filipinos are afflicted with.\nSionil Jose elaborates on his core ideas of a nationalist revolution and questions the communist movement, as well as the Moro struggle, for not really having achieved anything in the last 40 years. He suggests that it is the military that could be the nation’s modernizer.\nSionil Jose makes definitive statements about Philippine culture not being primarily Asian but Western. Worth noting in this essay collection, too, are his instructive comments on literature and on the writers who worked for Ferdinand Marcos.\nIn his twilight years, Sionil Jose continues to raise his voice to wake Filipinos up from their apathy and lethargy and, most of all, from their self-induced ignorance. He has also received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Literature in 1980, the National Artist Award in 2001, and the Pablo Neruda Centennial Award from Chile in 2004.\nFrom philstar.com.

Why we are hungry

Solidaridad Publish House

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