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Original Title:	Po-On
ISBN:	0375751440 (ISBN13: 9780375751448)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Rosales Saga #1

Dusk (Rosales Saga #1)

F. Sionil José

Paperback | Pages: 325 pages

Rating: 4.14 | 1162 Users | 77 Reviews

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Title	:	Dusk (Rosales Saga #1)
Author	:	F. Sionil José
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	The Modern Library
Pages	:	Pages: 325 pages
Published	:	April 28th 1998 by Random House Publishing Group (first published January 1st 1984)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Asia

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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.

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I had only read Jose's short stories before this and truly enjoyed this novel. His language is so very lyrical and evocative. & his nationalism is so very palpable. In this the first of the series, we follow the protagonist from the village to his life as a acolyte, before life makes different twists and turns for him. The book ends with the American invasion, which wasn't as welcomed as I had thought it had been. This was not MacArthur returning.Jose makes Filipino history come alive and I

No stranger can come battering down my door and say he brings me light. This I have within me.The white man cometh and he brings salvation religion, organized government, education, culture. But under the blanket statement of salvation is its shadow - exploitation of natural resources, of manpower, of freedom. What a nation/region will naturally develop in time is accelerated tenfold but with sudden growth comes the dependency to this unnatural and unsustainable support christened as the

I don't know why I waited this long to read this book. I've bought my copy a week before I met F. Sionil Jose himself in the Cavite Young Writers event back in 2010. He recognized my surname and knew how to spell it, which doesn't happen often since my twelve-lettered surname is an uncommon Spanish last name. For a man who is almost ninety, his memory was astounding. Though I haven't read his works at that time, I knew of his legacy, and the excitement and anxiety at that moment upon meeting a

A beautiful read, and my first book of F. Sionil Jose. Po-on, the title of the novel, comes from a small town in Ilocos where the tenant farmer family in the story originated. Alternatively, Po-on is also a Tagalog word for Lord. The novel is about the exile and journey of the fictional Salvador family from Ilocos to Pangasinan, set during the last years of the Spanish occupation in the Philippines. It is a novel about faith and the humble search for the meaning of life, of the farmer Istak, who

Banaba tree with its purple blossoms that have incredible medicinal uses."[...] if the Americans did not suffer from historical amnesia, they would never have gone to Vietnam. In the Spanish-American War, 250,000 Filipinos (whom the American soldiers called 'niggers') - mostly civilians - were killed, and thousands of Americans - many of them veterans of the Indian campaigns - were also casualties. As in the Philippines, in Vietnam the United States came face-to-face with that indomitable force,

I took my time with this book- I think its because many emotions were stirring inside of me that I had to reconcile with first. I wish I knew more of my own Filipino history. I felt sad that I did not know many of the folk heroes that were mentioned in this book. I also hurt for all the savagery of th Spanish and American occupations that occured many generations ago but still.....Lastly, I agree with the author's viewpoint that as Filipinoes, we are not united. Even today as we apeak, we are

Jose does a very good job examining how a common man is awakened to partake in his duty toward his country. He also does an excellent job describing the sensual yearnings of physical and later emotional love.The church becomes corrupt when they begin to take charge of temporal matters as what happened in the Philippines during the Spanish colonization when the priests were the de facto temporal rulers and the guards were merely enforces of the law. Having church and state married to the Spanish