Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories

By Bienvenido N. Santos

Book Overview

Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award

This collection of sixteen stories brings the work of a distinguished Filipino writer to an American audience. Scent of Apples contains work from the 1940s to the 1970s. Although many of Santos's writings have been published in the Philippines, Scent of Apples is his only book published in the United States.

Replaces ISBN 9780295956954

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295995114
• ISBN13: 9780295995113
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

The art of subtlety

I only had the chance to read three of the stories from this collection last semester, but I found them to be some of the most intriguing short stories I've seen. Santos is a very capable writer, and it seems one of the more subtle ones I've read in a long time. Particularly in "The Day the Dancers Came," Santos is able to make a universal statement from a very particular situation.