{"title":"x-NATIONAL ARTISTS OF THE PHILIPPINES - F. Sionil Jose","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"po-on-a-novel-by-f-sionil-jose","title":"PO-ON: A Novel by F. Sionil Jose","description":"With the publication of this novel, F. Sionil José completes his major work -- the Rosales saga. PO-ON starts it all. Set in Ilokos in the 1880's, it records the fight of a tenant family from its village to the plains of eastern Pangasinan. But more than a story of escape from Spanish tyranny, it is also one man's tortured search for true faith and the larger meaning of his own existence, a search which propels him across the wilderness to the plain, then back, to the hostile roof of the Ilokos in the Cordilleras. Here then is the beginning of an epic story which courses through four other novels -- TREE, MY BROTHER MY EXECUTIONER, THE PRETENDERS and culminates with MASS which the scholar-critic, Isagani R. Cruz, considers as \"one of the greatest Filipino novels of all time.\" Independent of each other, these five novels sweep through Philippine history, encompassing four generations -- an achievement which the poet-critic Ricaredo Demetillo recognizes as \"the first great Filipino novels written in English -- the most impressive legacy of any writer to the Philippine culture.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher ‏ : ‎ Solidaridad Publishing House (January 1, 1993)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9718845119\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9718845110\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eItem Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.8 ounces\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJ.J.","brand":"Philippine Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40932283613350,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/0785\/3478\/products\/po-on.jpg?v=1628741025"},{"product_id":"the-pretenders-a-novel-by-the-author-of-tree-and-two-filipino-women-by-f-sionil-jose-out-print","title":"The Pretenders (A Novel by the author of TREE and TWO FILIPINO WOMEN) by F. 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The timeline is set during the years after the Second World War, during the 1950s (because of a reference to Ramon Magsaysay found at the final pages of the novel).\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Philippine import.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher: Solidaridad Publishing House (1980)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNo ISBN","brand":"Philippine Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40932656873638,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/0785\/3478\/products\/thepretenders.jpg?v=1628745398"},{"product_id":"the-samsons-the-pretenders-and-mass-two-novels-by-f-sionil-jose","title":"The Samsons: The Pretenders and Mass (Two Novels) by F. 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Please note that if you pay and then cancel your order for one reason or another, PayPal has a 3.9% plus $0.15 fee that they charge us for every transaction. So, we would appreciate it if you just follow the instructions as stated here. This way, we will not pass on this fee to you should you cancel your order.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAntonio Samson of The Pretenders is ambitious, educated, and torn by conflicting ideas of revolution. He marries well, which leads to his eventual downfall. In Mass, Pepe Samson, the bastard son of Antonio, is also ambitious, but in different ways. He comes to Manila mainly to satisfy his appetites, and after adventures erotic and economic, finds his life taking a surprising turn. 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