Santos, Bienvenido N.,
You lovely people / Bienvenido N. Santos - Makati City, Philippines : Bookmark, Inc., c1991. - xi, 241 pages : 17.7 cm.
Contents: Introduction — The wise man who was not there — And beyond, more walls — The prisoners — The hurt men — Manila house — A peculiar rustling — Night club — Of other deaths — Lonely in the autumn evening — The door —Woman afraid — Ss many things — Brown coterie — Ash Wednesday — Scent of apples — Prelude to home — For these ruins — Letter: The faraway summer — Postscript: Accept the homage.
"In YOU LOVELY PEOPLE, his first book, Bienvenido N. Santos has presented what may well be the essence of those years--the loneliness and hunger of a people who were almost all of them hurt and broken to the bone. But for an ideal, which Santos so eloquently dramatizes in this book, they would have lost their very souls. In this sense YOU LVOELY PEOPLE is a document and at once a portrait of the Filipino Heart." —Provided by the publisher
Adult
Text in English
9789715690119 [newsprint]
Filipino Americans.
Short stories, Philippine (English).
You lovely people / Bienvenido N. Santos - Makati City, Philippines : Bookmark, Inc., c1991. - xi, 241 pages : 17.7 cm.
Contents: Introduction — The wise man who was not there — And beyond, more walls — The prisoners — The hurt men — Manila house — A peculiar rustling — Night club — Of other deaths — Lonely in the autumn evening — The door —Woman afraid — Ss many things — Brown coterie — Ash Wednesday — Scent of apples — Prelude to home — For these ruins — Letter: The faraway summer — Postscript: Accept the homage.
"In YOU LOVELY PEOPLE, his first book, Bienvenido N. Santos has presented what may well be the essence of those years--the loneliness and hunger of a people who were almost all of them hurt and broken to the bone. But for an ideal, which Santos so eloquently dramatizes in this book, they would have lost their very souls. In this sense YOU LVOELY PEOPLE is a document and at once a portrait of the Filipino Heart." —Provided by the publisher
Adult
Text in English
9789715690119 [newsprint]
Filipino Americans.
Short stories, Philippine (English).