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With Dusk (originally published in the Philippines as Po-on), F. Sionil Jose begins his five-novel Rosales Saga. 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.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and epic.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- F. Sionil José
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 267
- Publisher
- De La Salle University Press, Solidaridad Publishing House, Caminho
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English, tgl, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9789722100687
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