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.

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...

Written in elegant and precise prose, Don Vicente contains two novels in F. Sionil José's classic Rosales Saga. The saga, begun in José's novel Dusk, 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. The first novel here, Tree, is told by the loving but uneasy son of a land overseer. It 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. The second novel, My Brother, My...

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...

В очередной том Библиотеки избранных произведений писателей Азии и Африки вошли повесть бирманской писательницы Мо Мо Инья «Потерянная тропа», а также рассказы тридцать одного писателя Вьетнама, Индонезии, Малайзии, Сингапура, Таиланда и Филиппин.

В сборник вошли рассказы филиппинских новеллистов, творчество которых снискало популярность не только на родине, но и за рубежом. Тонкий лиризм, психологическая глубина, яркая выразительность языка ставят филиппинский рассказ в один ряд с лучшими образцами западной новеллистики. Мастерски написанные рассказы создают многокрасочную картину жизни различных слоев филиппинского общества.

Опубликовано в журнале "Иностранная литература" № 8, 1986 Из подзаглавной сноски ...Публикуемые рассказы взяты из книги «Вайвайя и другие рассказы о Филиппинах» («Waywaya and Other Short Stories from the Philippines», Hong Kong, Heinemann Educational Books (Asia), Ltd., 1980). © Francisco Sionil Jose, 1980.