Written in elegant and precise prose, Don Vicente contains two novels in F. Sionil Jose's classic Rosales Saga . The saga, begun in Jose's novel Dusk, traces the life of one family, and that of their rural town of Rosales, from the Philippine revolution against Spain through the arrival of the Americans to, ultimately, the Marcos dictatorship. The first novel here, Tree , is told by the loving but uneasy son of a land overseer. It is the story of...
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