Likewise, Ian Buruma, famed for his work on comparative historical memories of WWII in Europe and Asia, has noted that Jose is the "foremost Filipino novelist in English . . . his novels deserve a much wider readership than the Philippines can offer. His major work, the Rosales Saga, can be read as an allegory for the Filipino in search of an identity."
Finally, Ron Rennard of Discovery Magazine observed, "Together with the novels of Graham Greene, Andre Malraux, Joseph Conrad, Han Suyin, Yukio Mishima, F. Sionil Jose's Ermita is one of the top ten novels written on Southeast Asia."
It should be noted that aside from being a prolific novelist, Jose has worked as a journalist, a political organizer, an editor, and an entrepreneur. Similar to the character, Antonio Samson, in this novel, The Pretenders, Jose also lived many years in the USA and Europe. In summary, picking up a work from Jose to help one understand more about Philippines and Asia, therefore, sounded like a no-brainer to me.
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