Jose tells of a man with a genius for sinning, continuing his family's rich tradition of accomodating whatever power--Spain, United States, Japan--ruled, colonized, and profited by the Philippine Islands. Jose reveals the seeds of his sadness about and love for his beloved islands.
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Jose tells of a man with a genius for sinning, continuing his family's rich tradition of accomodating whatever power--Spain, United States, Japan--ruled, colonized, and profited by the Philippine Islands. Jose reveals the seeds of his sadness about and love for his beloved islands.
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Add this copy of Sins to cart. $13.41, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Random House (NY).
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Good in good dust jacket. Binding and spine tight. No apparent marks throughout this book. DJ has shelf and edge wear. Tracking available on most domestic orders.
Add this copy of Sins to cart. $24.98, good condition, Sold by BooksGalore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Kansas City, MO, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Random House (NY).
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Good in good dust jacket. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket looks fine from the surface, but has some foxing and a pink stain on the white underside, and additional light edge wear. Interior pages clean and unmarked. Light foxing along the top edge. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 207 p. Audience: General/trade.
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Add this copy of Sins: a Novel to cart. $42.00, very good condition, Sold by ZENO'S rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Random House.
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Very Good jacket. New York. 1996. Random House. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0679420185. 207 pages. hardcover. Jacket design: Susan Shapiro. keywords: Asia Philippines Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION-SIN: A NOVEL, also known as SINS, is a 1973 politico-historical novel written by Filipino National Artist F. Sionil Jose. This particular work of literature features the History of the Philippines, for the most part spanning the twentieth century, through the eyes of the ‘amoral‘ Don Carlos Corbello, a wealthy patriarch also known by the moniker ‘C.C.'. Being a part of that era, Corbello reaps most of what he sowed when he was already on his ‘deathbed'. During this time, Corbello recalled the loves of his life, those that he had lost and longed for. A literary account of the ‘steady degradation' of the Philippines, SIN was described by Pico Iyer of The New York Times Book Review as a book ‘. set in the Philippines, this amorality tale shadows a rake's impenitent progress. ' Allen Gaborro described SIN as the ‘most controversial‘ and the ‘most bohemian‘ or unconventional among Jose's novels because it portrayed the indecencies of Don Carlos Cobello in spite of the characterisation and reputation of Philippine Society as a ‘highly-conservative' and ‘predominantly Roman Catholic'. The novel is a narrative that challenges the well-established moral codes in the Philippines through the literary use of story lines equipped with ‘adulterous and incestuous' affairs, a genre that created an ‘artifice of sexual tension' within the pages of the book. SIN is a work of literature that serves as an ‘upsetting threat' to the foundations of ‘traditional Filipino mores‘ and the ‘infallibility of fundamental Christianity‘, the mainstay of the psyche of the majority and ‘epistemic and spiritual strength' of many Filipinos. From a larger perspective, Jose's SIN is a novel that galvanises the call to ‘mass consciousness' due to its exposE of ‘vanity and greed' entrenched in the elite configuration of supremacy and control in countries worldwide. Jose also presented in SIN the contrasting inequity between the wealthy and the poverty-stricken, making the book an assault on the unending control of wealth, resources, and social capital by Filipino aristocrats. It also assails on the theme of racial discrimination committed by the landed, mestizo gentry against the Indios or the indigenous Malay race of Filipino society, who were victims of the same prejudice beginning with the arrival of the Spanishs in the 1521. The narration in Jose's SIN had been compared to the novels written by Milan Kundera. inventory #22256.
Add this copy of Sins: a Novel (Signed Copy / First Edition) to cart. $42.00, good condition, Sold by Conover Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Martinsville, VA, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Random House.
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Good in Good jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Inscribed By the Author Minor edge and corner wear to the dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are gently bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice SIGNED FIRST EDITION (stated)! Inscribed and dated by the author on the half-title page! Red boards quarterbound by black with gilt lettering on the spine. Deckle page edges. 207 magical and historical pages! "Don Carlos lies on his deathbed, determined to tell all. Don Carlos lies, as they say, through his teeth. In this slim, powerful novel, F. Sionil Jose, one of the leading literary voices of Asia and the Pacific, tells all. Don Carlos Cobello, a worldly man, has been a diplomat, entrepreneur, gourmand, and sinner. Like other memoirists, he reveals more than he intends. Born to wealth, he was determined to increase it. Born to corruption, he sees no reason to give up too much of a good thing. Born of woman, he sets about seducing--or simply taking--every woman he sees, starting with his sister. He is a prince of accommodation; his family has drawn close to power no matter who dominated their islands, be it the Spanish, the Japanese, or the Americans. (A woman shared with a Japanese colonel in a family-owned brothel returns their favors by passing on to one the disease of the other. ) The colorful cast includes a "hero of the Revolution" who purchased land with revolutionary funds, a close poker-playing friend of General Douglas MacArthur, and the illegitimate son of a maid who later becomes a lawyer destined for greatness. Cobello's wealth, incest, and casual infidelities are no hindrance to an upwardly mobile career. In the "incredible reality that is the Philippines, " says Jose, "the higher one goes, the whiter one becomes." For, as Cobello puts it, "here, sin is a social definition, not a moral one." Sins will add to the stature of F. Sionil Jose and to his growing reputation in the United States........." (SIGNED COPY).
