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Breaking the silence

Statement of responsibility: Lourdes R. Montinola
by Montinola, Lourdes R.
Type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Philippine writers series 1996.Publisher: Quezon City : University of the Philippines Press and the Creative Writing Center, c1996Description: xiv, 124 p. : 24 x 16 cm.ISBN: 9715421288 (softbound).Subject(s): Montinola, Lourdes Reyes | Reyes, Nicanor | Reyes family | Philippines -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945 -- Personal narrativesGeneral Note(s):
Breaking the Silence is a story reluctantly told by the author, a survivor of Japanese atrocities during the liberation of Manila. Her parents were killed during the war. - Roderick HallLanguage/Translation Info: EnglishSummary: A personal account of events long suppressed about Japanese atrocities in the Battle of Manila in 1945. The author’s father was Dr. Nicanor Reyes, founder and first president of the Far Eastern University. She writes about her father, her mother, her pre-war life and the life under the Japanese. Her father was brutally killed, her mother bayoneted, as she was hiding; it took fifty years for her to come to terms with that tragedy and put it in writing. The book also contains her journal entries as she struggled to remember what she had tried so hard to forget; she was encouraged to write her memories and reactions by both National Artist Nick Joaquin, who was writing a biography of her father, and Prof. Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo, head of the University of the Philippines’ Creative Writing Center. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose List(s) this item appears in: Women and War Exhibition
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PS 3557 A49 F57 Fires of survival : PS 9993 G65 Y38 The yawning gap PS 9993 J67 2001 Ben Singkol : PS 9993 M646 B7 Breaking the silence PS 9993 M646 B7 Breaking the silence PS 9993 M646 B7 Breaking the silence PS 9993 .O87 I6 2006 In my absence

Breaking the Silence is a story reluctantly told by the author, a survivor of Japanese atrocities during the liberation of Manila. Her parents were killed during the war. - Roderick Hall

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