Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories (Classics of Asian American Literature)
A collection of sixteen stories about Filipino immigrant loneliness, memory of home, and the difficult work of adapting to a new place. Each story quietly layers family, memory, and the feeling of movement.
Work Information
By following the scent of home, the time of migration comes into view.
Scent of Apples gathers sixteen stories about Filipino migrants and their families, moving between the Philippines and the United States. It is also known as Santos’s only book published in the United States.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Univ of Washington Pr
- Published
- 2015-07-25
- Pages
- 178 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.72 x 1.78 x 21.34 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780295995113
- ISBN-10
- 9780295995113
- Price
- 5357 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Short Stories/Single Author
Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award This collection of sixteen stories brings the work of a distinguished Filipino writer to an American audience. Scent of Apples contains work from the 1940s to the 1970s. Although many of Santos's writings have been published in the Philippines, Scent of Apples is his only book published in the United States. Replaces ISBN 9780295956954
Bienvenido N. Santos (19111996) first came to the United States in 1941 as a government pensionado (scholar) at the University of Illinois, Columbia University, and Harvard University. During World War II he served the Philippine government from exile in Washington, DC, before returning to the Philippines in 1946. He came back to the United States in 1958 and attended the University of Iowas Writers Workshop. In 1965 he received the Republic Cultural Heritage Award in Literature from the Philippine government.
Reviews
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Stories of Filipinos in America
A bit underrated, undeservedly, among Filipino writers in English, Bienvenido Santos in this collection has a low-key but confident narrative voice, deceptively simple and almost refreshingly understated. Beautiful stories about people who happen to be no longer where they may have started.
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Excellent Read!
I think that it's enough to say that I will be looking for more work from this author. His writing is excellent and thought-provoking.
Related Literary Awards
- American Book Awards Edition 2 (1981) ・Winner