Tree (novel)
 Book cover for F. Sionil José's novel Tree. | |
| Author | F. Sionil José |
|---|---|
| Country | Philippines |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Publisher | Solidaridad Publishing House, Inc. (Philippines) |
Publication date | 1978 |
Tree is a 1978
Filipinos
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Description
Set in the 1950s in the
Ilocano town known as Rosales, Pangasinan. He was surrounded by acquaintances beneath his social class, relatives, and servants.[2] He was described as a youth who “searched for parental love” and a “place in a society with rigid class structures”. He was also the grandson of the landlord protagonized by José in the novel Po-on. In Tree, the boy narrated the weakening relationship between the peasants and landowners in Ilocos, including how Don Vicente Asperri took over their lands.[1]
Once the center of rice trading in eastern
guerrillas to fight the Japanese occupiers in return for improved living conditions.[5] The inequalities received by the tenants of the plantations resulted to the birth of an uprising that would change Philippine society forever.[3]
References
- ^ a b Yoser, Elizabeth G. Under the Balete Tree: F. Sionil José’s Rosales Novels, World Literature Today, Vol. 62, No. 1 (Winter, 1988), University of Oklahoma, pp. 82-84, jstor.org
- ^ a b "Tree" by F. Sionil José, amazon.com
- ^ a b c d e f "Tree" by F. Sionil José, Don Vicente: Two Novels, Modern Library Paperbacks, amazon.com
- ^ a b "Tree" by F. Sionil José Archived 2009-07-21 at the Wayback Machine, Don Vicente: Two Novels, tribo.org
- ^ "Tree" by F(rancisco) Sionil José, Contemporary Novelists, 2001, The Gale Group Inc., Farmington Hills, Michigan, encyclopedia.com
External links
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