Dusk
Author: José, F. Sionil
ISBN: 9780375751448
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 28 Apr 1998
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback / softback
With b>Dusk/b> (originally published in the Philippines as b>Po-on/b>), 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, b>Dusk/b> 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 b>One Hundred Years of Solitude/b> is to Latin American literature.br>br>br>br>"The foremost Filipino novelist in English, his novels deserve a much wider readership than the Philippines can offer."--Ian Buruma, New York Review of Booksbr>br>br>"Tolstoy himself, not to mention Italo Svevo, would envy the author of this story."--Chicago Tribune
ISBN: 9780375751448
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 28 Apr 1998
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback / softback
With b>Dusk/b> (originally published in the Philippines as b>Po-on/b>), 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, b>Dusk/b> 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 b>One Hundred Years of Solitude/b> is to Latin American literature.br>br>br>br>"The foremost Filipino novelist in English, his novels deserve a much wider readership than the Philippines can offer."--Ian Buruma, New York Review of Booksbr>br>br>"Tolstoy himself, not to mention Italo Svevo, would envy the author of this story."--Chicago Tribune
