Three Filipino Women
by F. Sionil José
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Three novellas—including Obsession, Platinum, and Cadena de Amor —examine the Philippine experience through the lives of three female characters, a prostitute, a student activist, and a politician.Tags
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3 long stories or novellas, each about a particular woman who lived in very different circumstances ... by The Great Man of Filipino Letters (so the remarks by reviewers say). I liked this book a lot and learned from it, too. It sparkles.
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F. Sionil José was born in Rosales, Philippines on December 3, 1924. He was educated at the University of Santo Tomas. While working as a journalist in Manila, he wrote short stories and eventually novels in his spare time. In the late 1950s, he founded the Philippine branch of PEN. In 1965, he started his own publishing house Solidaridad and a show more year later started publishing the journal Solidarity. His first novel, The Pretenders, was published in 1962. Since then he has written twelve novels, seven short story collections, a book of verse, and five books of essays. His other works include Three Filipino Women, Sins, Dusk, Don Vincente, Ermita, and Vibora! He received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts in 1980 and the Pablo Neruda Centennial Award in 2004. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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