LoginThe Bread of Salt and Other Stories
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This book provides a retrospective collection of sixteen of the author's short stories, arranged in the order of their writing, from the early 1950's to the present. This is a powerful collection, both for the unity and universality of the author's subjects and themes and for the distinctive character of his prose style.
Each of these sixteen tales is a small masterpiece. The language and its imagery, the characters and their aspirations, all connect powerfully with the reader and serve to illuminate the dreams of exiles and colonials, suggesting what it is like, as a Filipino, to witness the endless interacting of cultures.
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Manufacturer: University of the Philippines Press
Release date: 31 December 1969
ISBN-10 : 9715421865 |
Release date: 31 December 1969
ISBN-10 : 9715421865 |
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