The bamboo dancers

González, N. V. M.

The bamboo dancers / N.V.M. Gonzalez - 358 pages - Filipino literary classics .

The hero of the novel, a sculptor in America on a fellowship grant, experiences the American culture quite differently from his brother, a physician on a fellowship in California. Both return to the Philippines, the doctor with the accoutrements of the Western civilization in more ways than one, but the sculptor on a roundabout trip takes back with him what he learns from eventful visits to Tokyo, Hiroshima and Taipeh.

Winner of the Republic Cultural Heritage Award 1960 for literature.

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Philippine fiction (English)

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