Viajero is a novel of history, of these islands and their people long before the Spaniards came. It is also a story of the Filipino diaspora as seen by an orphan, Salvador dela Raza, who is brought by an American captain to the United States in 1945. Through the eyes of Salvador unfolds the epic voyage of the Filipino, from the earliest contact with China, through Magellan’s tragedy in Mactan, onto the heroic voyages of the galleons across the Pacific. The Viajero story concludes with the movement of Filipino workers to the Middle East, and the travail of our women in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tokyo. The Filipino’s continuous search for social justice and a moral order —a major theme in Sionil Jose’s fiction— pervades this novel.

F. Sionil José is now translated in 27 languages. His major work, the Rosales Saga —five novels depicting a hundred years of tumultuous Philippines history— is now out in American, French and Spanish editions.

In 1980, F. Sionil José received the Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts; in 2001, The National Artist Award, and in 2004, The Pablo Neruda Centennial Award.

Solidaridad Publishing House.

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