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Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories (Classics of Asian American Literature) - Softcover

Santos, Bienvenido N.

 
9780295995113: Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories (Classics of Asian American Literature)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0295995114 ISBN 13: 9780295995113
Publisher: University of Washington Press, 2015

Synopsis

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

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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.

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Publisher
University of Washington Press
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0295995114
ISBN 13 
9780295995113
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
220