F. Sionil José

Don Carlos Cobello ligger for døden og gjør opp status for sitt liv og ettermæle. Gjennom hans bekjennelser blir det tegnet et rått og avslørende portrett. Hans forsøk på et selvforsvar avslører snarere hans selvbedrag. Han har ført et korrupt og amoralsk liv og fortsatt sin families tradisjon med å tilrøve seg makt og nytelser med alle midler. Han er en mann det er lett å avsky, men som leseren samtidig føler en motvillig fascinasjon for. Den fillipinske forfatteren F. Sionil José (f. 1924) avkler gjennom sin hovedpersons bekjennelser det filippinske klassesamfunn, og går til angrep på aristokratiets hykleri, maktmisbruk og iboende rasisme. Synder blir betraktet som en av forfatterens mest kontroversielle og samtidig mest dyptloddende romaner.

Selected Articles and Essays by various authors: I. The Challenge of a Hundred Days: Believing that Filipinos can, Tony Meloto + + II. The 2006 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Service, for Tony Meloto + + III. Open Letter to Noynoy, F. Sionil Jose + + IV. A History of Pain, Juan L. Mercado + + V. An Open Letter to Noynoy, From OFWS + + VI. Pursuit of Good Governance Advocacies, Marcelo Tecson + + VII. A Fervent Prayer for Peace, Cesar Torres + + VIII. A History of Betrayal, Perry Diaz + + IX. Corona's Thorny Crown, Perry Diaz + + X. Dawn of a New Era, Perry Diaz + + XI. Of Mice, Boys and Men, Philip S. Chua, MD + + XII. A Hopeful Tomorrow - A Balikbayan Insight, Philip S. Chua, MD + + XIII. Global Filipinos: A Sleeping Giant, Philip S. Chua, MD + + XIV. Heart to Heart - Winds of Change, Philip S. Chua, MD + + XV. Growing Old is a Privilege, Philip S. Chua, MD + + XVI. Our Cruelty to Mother Earth, Philip S. Chua, MD + + XVII. Advice to Grads: "Never Choose Your Heroes Lightly", Ernie Delfin + + XVIII. Gawad Kalinga, A Progressive Movement, Ernie Delfin + + XIX. Why a Man Must Save and Invest, Ernie Delfin + + XX. Beautiful San Francisco, Pinoy Heaven, Ted Laguatan + + XXI. The next President and PAMUSA, Frank Wenceslao + + XXII. Philippne Budget Deficit, Frank Wenceslao + + XXIII. Money Laundering: US Tools vs. Corruption, Frank Wenceslao + + XXIV. Amid the Fighting, Clan Rules Maguindanao, Jaileen F. Jimeno + + XXV. Why I Publish Writings, Tatay Jobo Elizes

Written in elegant and precise prose, Don Vicente contains two novels in F. Sionil Jos 's classic Rosales Saga. The saga, begun in Jos '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 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. Together in Don Vicente, they form the second volume of the five-novel Rosales Saga, an epic the Chicago Tribune has called "a masterpiece."

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 literature as One Hundred Years of Solitude is to Latin American literature. "The foremost Filipino novelist in English, his novels deserve a much wider readership than the Philippines can offer."--Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books "Tolstoy himself, not to mention Italo Svevo, would envy the author of this story."--Chicago Tribune