F. sionil jose contribution to philippine literature

(Rosales Saga, #1)

by

Sionil JOSÉ

317 pages

Published in 1984

THIS BOOK COUNTS FOR THE FOLLOWING
READING CHALLENGES

MY THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS BOOK

On a background of hauntingly beautiful landscape, so well  committed to words, see my favorite passage here below, this is actually the horrific history of Spaniard colonization (and the beginning of the American one) of the Philippines.

This was totally new to me, though unfortunately history repeats itself when it comes to colonization, with the help of the Church. I’m a committed Christian, but I have to say the Church does not come at all under nice colors, in the way it is corrupted and how they treat the poor.

Dusk is actually a reflection on suffering and salvation, as the family of Istak struggles with poverty, with their anger and its consequences, towards the foreigners who hold the powers, deprive them of their lands, and push them into fleeing. As you follow them in their odys F sionil jose biography philippines!