Tindalo de sinamay - Isaac Donoso - Bog

"Philippine literature is a mosaic of oral and written traditions in various Austronesian languages. It is in the Spanish language that the idea of the Philippine nation, and the first Republic of Asia, emerged at the end of the 19th century. As an allegory of this genetic process, Tâindalo de sinamay threads the life and death of Josâe Rizal, writer, hero and martyr of the Pearl of the Seas, as he lives and suffers it, from early childhood games and popular festivals to conscious resolution of one who gives his life for the sake of an ideal"--