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

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

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Publication Date: September 1st, 2015

Publisher:

University of Washington Press

ISBN:

9780295995113

Pages:

220

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Description

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

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.