The Rosales Saga series by F. Sionil José (#1-5, 3 volumes)
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Overview: Francisco Sionil José was born in 1924 in Pangasinan province and attended the public school in his hometown. He attended the University of Santo Tomas after World War II and in 1949, started his career in writing. Since then, his fiction has been published internationally and translated into several languages including his native Ilokano. He has been involved with the international cultural organizations, notably International P.E.N., the world association of poets, playwrights, essayists and novelists whose Philippine Center he founded in 1958.
The Philippines’ most widely translated author, José is known best for his epic work, the Rosales saga – five novels encompassing one hundred years of Philippine history – a vivid documentary of Filipino life.
In 1980, Sionil José received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts. In 2001, he was named National Artist for Literature and in 2004, he received the Pablo Neruda Centennial Award.
Genre: Fiction » General Fiction/Classics
Dusk, Book #1
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. 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.
Don Vicente, Books #2-3
Written in elegant and precise prose, Don Vicente contains two novels in the Rosales Saga, which traces the life of one family, and that of their rural town of Rosales, from the Philippine revolution against Spain through the arrival of the Americans to, ultimately, the Marcos dictatorship.
Tree, told by the loving but uneasy son of a land overseer, is the story of one young man’s search for parental love and for his place in a society with rigid class structures. The tree of the title is a symbol of the hopes and dreams–too often dashed–of the Filipino people.
My Brother, My Executioner follows the misfortunes of two brothers, one the editor of a radical magazine who is tempted by the luxury of the city, the other an activist who is prepared to confront all of his enemies, real or imagined. The critic I. R. Cruz called it "a masterly symphony" of injustice, women, sex, and suicide.
The Samsons, Books #4-5
The Pretenders centers around the short life of Antonio Samson. A graduate student with revolutionary leanings, Samson meets the seductive Carmen Villa, daughter of a powerful, and corrupt, industrialist. Working toward a reform that would give the native Ilocanos more control over their land, he leads a double life, loving, and eventually marrying, the seductive Carmen, whose father stands for everything he despises. When he is betrayed by his wife, this inner conflict breaks into the open and threatens to destroy him. More than just the story of an individual life, The Pretenders is the moving tale of the life of a people, a people who often feel alienated from their own country, and who seem powerless to take control of their fate.
Mass is told by the illegitimate son of Antonio Samson. Grown up, Pepe escapes from his village, drawn by the excitement and danger of the city. But in Manila he ends up in the sprawling slum of Tondo, still as poor as ever, and unable to participate in the life he came for. Yet, as Pepe moves from one morass to another, he finally comes to an understanding of his life. As much a story of hope as of despair, Mass is an affirmation of the strong spirit of the Filipino people, a spirit that refuses to be broken, even by the most devastating adversity.
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