Olvidon and Other Stories
Edition: Third printing
Publisher: Solidaridad Publishing House
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Manila, Philippines
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9789718845189
Copyright date: 1988
First sentence: Dr. Salvador Puro arrived in the capital on the seventh auspicious year of the New Era, as the Leader had proclaimed his regime after he had staged a coup with a group of generals from his tribe.
Description: This new edition of OLVIDON is much thicker because it now includes all the short stories in he collection, PLATINUM. The title story of the collection, is one of the three novellas in the author's THREE FILIPINO WOMEN.

In this collection of short stories, F. Sionil Jose—the Philippines' most widely translated author—takes his readers into that intriguing and fascinating landscape of the Filipino condition. The title story is a graphic allegorical rendering of the disease which has long afflicted the upper reaches of Filipino society. Then with the deft strokes of a master story teller, the author takes his readers into the far reaches and the inner depths of the Filipino experience.
Table of contents: label: Olvidon
title: 1; label: Diplomacy
title: 35; label: Friendship
title: 45; label: Modesty Aside
title: 67; label: Heights
title: 81; label: Wounds
title: 93; label: Pills
title: 121; label: Men in War
title: 135; label: The Drowning
title: 145; label: A Matter of Honor
title: 173; label: The Roach Killer
title: 187; label: Magic
title: 207; label: Summary
title: 219; label: Imagination
title: 235; label: The Mistress
title: 248