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

Dusk: A Novel (Modern Library (Paperback))

Literature & Fiction

José, F. Sionil

British & Irish

Random House Publishing Group

With these two passionate, vividly realistic novels, The Pretenders and Mass, F. Sionil José concludes his epochal Rosales Saga. The five volumes span much of the turbulent modern history of the Philippines, a beautiful and embattled nation once occupied by the Spanish, overrun by the Japanese, and dominated by the United States. The portraits painted in The Samsons, and in the previously published Modern Library paperback editions of Dusk and Don Vicente (containing Tree and My Brother, My Executioner), are vivid renderings of one family from the village of Rosales who contend with the forces of oppression and human nature. Antonio Samson of The Pretenders is ambitious, educated, and torn by conflicting ideas of revolution. He marries well, which leads to his eventual downfall. In Mass, Pepe Samson, the bastard son of Antonio, is also ambitious, but in different ways. He comes to Manila mainly to satisfy his appetites, and after adventures erotic and economic, finds his life taking a surprising turn. Together, these novels form a portrait of a village and a nation, and conclude one of the masterpieces of Southeast Asian literature.

The Samsons: Two Novels The Pretenders and Mass

Modern Library

Sins

Random House Value Publishing

Three novellas--including Obsession, Platinum, and Cadena de Amor--examine the Philippine experience through the lives of three female characters, a prostitute, a student activist, and a politician. 10,000 first printing.

Three Filipino Women

Random House]

Don Carlos lies on his deathbed, determined to tell all. Don Carlos lies, as they say, through his teeth. in this slim, powerful novel, F. Sionil Jose, one of the leading literary voices of Asia and the Pacific, tells all. Don Carlos Cobello, a worldly man, has been a diplomat, entrepreneur, gourmand, and sinner. Like other memoirists, he reveals more than he intends. Born to wealth, he was determined to increase it. Born to corruption, he sees no reason to give up too much of a good thing. Born of woman, he sets about seducing -- or simply taking -- every woman he sees, starting with his sister. He is a prince of accommodation; his family has drawn close to power no matter who dominated their islands, be it the Spanish, the Japanese, or the Americans. (A woman shared with a Japanese colonel in a family-owned brothel returns their favors by passing on to one the disease of the other.) The colorful cast includes a "hero of the Revolution" who purchased land with revolutionary funds, a close poker-playing friend of General Douglas MacArthur, and the illegitimate son of a maid who later becomes a lawyer destined for greatness. Cobello's wealth, incest, and casual infidelities are no hindrance to an upwardly mobile career. In the "incredible reality that is the Philippines," says Jose, "the higher one goes, the whiter one becomes." For, as Cobello puts it, "here, sin is a social definition, not a moral one." Sins will add to the stature of F. Sionil Jose and to his growing reputation in the United States.

Mass, a Novel

HarperCollins, Publishers

My Brother, My Executioner [Paperback] [Sep 01, 1979] Jose, F. Sionil

My Brother, My Executioner

Cellar Book Shop

In writing this novel, F. Sionil Jose completed his masterpiece- the Rosales saga. Po-on is the start of all of this. It was in Ilokos during the decade of 1880-1889 when one family left their barrio to go to the plains of Pangasinan. Aside from the story of escaping the cruelty of the Spaniards, this is also a story about a poor person who was looking for someone who truly believe at the deep meaning of life, a search that led him to the plains and the chaotic surroundings of Ilocos in Cordillera.

Po-on: Isang nobela

De La Salle University Press

In these ten stories, F. Sionil Jose continues his excursion into the swamplands of the Filipino psyche. It is a depressing journey full of insights into the shallows and depths of the Filipino charcacter. Sionil Jose's stories are, therefore, not just literary guidposts - they are also impeccable social records that will not be found in today's newspapers and history books.

Platinum: Ten Filipino Short Stories

Solidaridad/PALH

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Dusk: A Novel (Modern Library (Paperback))

The Samsons: Two Novels The Pretenders and Mass

Sins

Three Filipino Women

Sins

Mass, a Novel

My Brother, My Executioner

My Brother, My Executioner

Po-on: Isang nobela

Platinum: Ten Filipino Short Stories