{"product_id":"9780375751448","title":"Dusk (Modern Library Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith \u003cb\u003eDusk\u003c\/b\u003e (originally published in the Philippines as \u003cb\u003ePo-on\u003c\/b\u003e), 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, \u003cb\u003eDusk\u003c\/b\u003e 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'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 \u003cb\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/b\u003e is to Latin American literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The foremost Filipino novelist in English, his novels deserve a much wider readership than the Philippines can offer.\"—Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Tolstoy himself, not to mention Italo Svevo, would envy the author of this story.\"—Chicago Tribune\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024988553456,"sku":"9780375751448","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780375751448_p0.jpg?v=1763692451","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780375751448","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}