The Hand of the Enemy
Author | : Kerima Polotan |
Publisher | : San Miguel, Manila : Published for the Philippine Center of International PEN by Regal Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1962 |
ISBN-10 | : UCSC:32106007627950 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Hand of the Enemy written by Kerima Polotan and published by San Miguel, Manila : Published for the Philippine Center of International PEN by Regal Publishing Company. This book was released on 1962 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Won the Stonehill Award for Filipino Novel in English. This novel probes into the sensibility of the middle-class, and the intellectual elite. Polotan follows her heroine as she agonizes through her marriage, the unfaithfulness of her husband, and the sense that life has defeated her. These personal concerns are linked to the climate of social and political corruption particularly in the city due to society's failure to read the lessons of history. Yet Polotan, although she shows her character to be a victim (not so much of society circumstances as of her own failure of will and her rather romantic perceptions and confused set of priorities), recognizes in her life and career that it is essential for a woman to survive and for a woman writer to be able to write and continue writing" --publisher.