Waywaya and other stories from the philippines by f sionil jose book cover, description, publication history. He attended the university of santo tomas after world war ii and in 1949, started his career in writing. What is the plot summary of waywaya by f sionil jose. Eleven filipino short stories platinum olvidon and other stories puppy love and other stories f. Waywaya and other stories from the philippines jose, f. Sionil jose begins his fivenovel rosales saga, which the poet and critic ricaredo demetillo called the first great filipino novels written in english. Join facebook to connect with francisco sionil jose and others you may know. 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. His works cannot be separated from philippine politics and social trauma. Waywaya and other short stories from the philippines f.
Sionil jose has 50 books on goodreads with 19617 ratings. Francisco sionil jose born 3 december 1924 is one of the most widely read filipino writers in. Waywaya, a short story by sionil jose from northern. His novels and short stories depict the social underpinnings of class struggles and colonialism in filipino society. He is the philippines most widely translated author today. Sionil joses prodigious production in the last decade, are a moving commentary on the filipinos. In sionil joses own language, ilokano, waywaya means freedom. The pretenders, hardcover january 1, 1966 by francisco sionil jose author 5. Recently, i fulfilled my obligation to read a short story entitled waywaya, which is about prehispanic society. Since then, his fiction has been published internationally and translated into several languages including his native ilokano.
Sionil jose book 6 editions published in 1999 in english and held by 241 worldcat member libraries worldwide. Waywaya and other stories from the philippines by f sionil jose. Waywaya recreates prehispanic philippine society and should also be read as allegory. Joses workswritten in englishhave been translated into 28 languages, including korean, indonesian, czech, russian, latvian, ukrainian and dutch. Francisco sionil jose was born in 1924 in pangasinan province and attended the public school in his hometown. Sionil jose was the recipient of the prestigious 1980 ramon magsaysay award. Towards the end of my stay in the philippines as a jica expert for a japanese government project, one of my counterparts from an it training center gave me a book of eleven short stories about the philippines. Available in the national library of australia collection. It consists of 11 short stories, all of them revolving around the prehispanic society in the philippines.