Viajero : a Filipino novel / F. Sionil Jose

By:

Jose, F. Sionil [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Manila : Solidaridad Publishing House, [1993]Description: 278 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9718845054

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

899.2103

Summary: Viajero is a novel of history of the Philippine Islands and their people long before the Spaniards came. It is also the story of the Filipino diaspora as seen by an orphan who is brought by an American captain to the United States in 1945. Through the eyes of Salvador dela Raza unfolds the epic voyage of the Filipino, from the earliest contact with China through Magellan's tragedy in Mactan, onto the heroic voyage of the galleons across the Pacific. The VIAJERO story concludes with the movement of Filipino workers to the Middle East, and the travail of Filipino women in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tokyo.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Main Library Filipiniana Section	Filipiniana	F 899.213 J83v 1993 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	92661d

Viajero is a novel of history of the Philippine Islands and their people long before the Spaniards came. It is also the story of the Filipino diaspora as seen by an orphan who is brought by an American captain to the United States in 1945. Through the eyes of Salvador dela Raza unfolds the epic voyage of the Filipino, from the earliest contact with China through Magellan's tragedy in Mactan, onto the heroic voyage of the galleons across the Pacific. The VIAJERO story concludes with the movement of Filipino workers to the Middle East, and the travail of Filipino women in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tokyo.

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