With <b>Dusk</b> (originally published in the Philippines as <b>Po-on</b>), F. Sionil Jose begins his five-novel Rosales Saga, which the poet and critic Ricaredo Demetillo called &quot;the first great Filipino novels written in English.&quot; Set in the 1880s, <b>Dusk</b> 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 <b>One Hundred Years of Solitude</b> is to Latin American literature.<br><br><br><br>&quot;The foremost Filipino novelist in English, his novels deserve a much wider readership than the Philippines can offer.&quot;--Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books<br><br><br>&quot;Tolstoy himself, not to mention Italo Svevo, would envy the author of this story.&quot;--Chicago Tribune