Rosales Saga

Rosales Saga Series

This epic saga chronicles five generations of two families across a turbulent period of Philippine history. From the Spanish colonial era through the post-independence period, the destinies of impoverished farmers and wealthy mestizos unfold. The novels delve into the political upheavals, social transformations, and personal struggles that shaped a nation. It's a compelling narrative of identity, displacement, and the search for belonging.

Dusk

Francisco Sionil Jose

352 pages
13 hours of reading

4.2(1102)Add rating

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

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Dusk