F. Sionil Jose
- "Wayawaya" recreates pre-hispanic Philippine society and should be as allegory
in Sionil Jose's own language, Ilokano, "Wayawaya" means freedom.
- Dusk-Set in the 1880's,records the exile of a tenant family from it's village and the new life it attempts to make in a 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 external story of man's tortured search for the true faith and the larger meaning of existence.
- Viajero is a novel of history of those islands and their people long before the spaniards came.
It is also a story of the Filipino diaspora as seen by an orphan, Salvador dela raza, who is
brought by an American captain to the United States in 945..Trough the eyes of Salvador unfolds the epic voyage
of the filipino from the earliest contact with China through Magellans tradegy in Mactan onto the heroic voyages
of the galleons across the Pacific. The Viajero story concludes with the movement of filipino workers to the Middle East
and the travail of our woman in hongkong, Singapore, and Tokyo.
The filipino's continous search for social justice and moral order pervades this fiction.
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