TY  - BOOK
AU  - Montinola, Lourdes R.
TI  - Breaking the silence
T2  - Philippine writers series 1996
SN  - 9715421288 (softbound)
AV  - PS 9993 M646 B7 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Quezon City : 
PB  - University of the Philippines Press and the Creative Writing Center
KW  - Montinola, Lourdes Reyes.
KW  - Reyes, Nicanor.
KW  - Reyes family
KW  - Philippines
KW  - History
KW  - Japanese occupation, 1942-1945
KW  - Personal narratives
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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