Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories

by Bienvenido N. Santos, Jessica Hagedorn (Foreword by), Allan Punzalan Isaac (Introduction)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780295806259
Publisher:	University of Washington Press
Publication date:	09/01/2015
Series:	Classics of Asian American Literature
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	220
File size:	421 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Bienvenido N. Santos (1911–1996) 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 Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop. In 1965 he received the Republic Cultural Heritage Award in Literature from the Philippine government.

What People are Saying About This

From the foreword by Jessica Hagedorn

"This timely new edition . . . resurrects the work of this largely forgotten master storyteller for another generation of readers. There is much pleasure and insight to be found in this rich and satisfying collection."

Editorial Reviews

"Mr. Santos is a master at giving the reader a sense of people speaking in many languages and dialects."

Maxine Hong Kingston

"Santos is a writer of deceptive simplicity, one whose graceful storytelling conceals considerable political commitment. . . . His stories capture with warmth and deep humanity the pain of exile and the cost of progress."

Washington Post

"Mr. Santos’s best pieces are exquisitely crafted works which examine with irony, humor, and humanity the plight of Filipinos in America."

Studies in Short Fiction

Santos is a writer of deceptive simplicity, one whose graceful storytelling conceals considerable political commitment. . . . His stories capture with warmth and deep humanity the pain of exile and the cost of progress.

Washington Post