Dusk

<p>With <strong>Dusk</strong>&nbsp;(originally published in the Philippines as&nbsp;<strong>Po-on</strong>), F. Sionil Jose begins his five-novel Rosales Saga, which the poet and critic Ricaredo Demetillo called "the first great Filipino novels written in English." Set in the 1880s,&nbsp;<strong>Dusk</strong>&nbsp;records the exile of a tenant family from its village and the new life it attempts to make in the small town of Rosales. Here commences the epic tale of a family unwillingly thrown into the turmoil of history. But this is more than a historical novel; it is also the eternal story of man&rsquo;s tortured search for true faith and the larger meaning of existence. Jose has achieved a fiction of extraordinary scope and passion, a book as meaningful to Philippine literature as&nbsp;<strong>One Hundred Years of Solitude</strong> is to Latin American literature.<br /><br />"The foremost Filipino novelist in English, his novels deserve a much wider readership than the Philippines can offer."&ndash;Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books</p>