These selected short stories are culled from the author's five volumes of short fiction, written from the late forties to the present —six decades of continuous labor illustrating the author's major theme: the Filipino's often futile search for social justice and a moral order.

This collection includes The God Stealer which is his most anthologized short fiction. It has also been made into a movie by Lamberto Avellana, one of the Filipino pioneers in the film industry, and made into a play by Jose Victor Torres.

Another story, Waywaya is also widely anthologized.

And Progress, a stark comment on the Philippine bureaucracy under Martial Law, was transformed into a successful one act by Bernard Go.

Sionil Jose is best known for his Rosales saga, five novels set in a small Filipino town, encompassing a century of tumultuous Philippine history.

The saga begins with the execution of the three Filipino priests, Gomez, Burgos and Zamora in 1872, and culminates shortly before Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law in 1972.

Sionil Jose's fiction is now translated into 28 languages, including his native Ilokano.

In 1980, he received the Roman Magsaysay Memorial Award for Literature, in 2001, the National Artist Award for Literature, and in 2004, he received from the government of Chile the Pablo Neruda Centennial Award for Literature.

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