Aboard a river steamer in the Spanish Philippines, a wealthy jeweller named Simoun moves among friars, officials and students with an icy smile. Through him and others, among them the student Basilio and the ruined farmer Cabesang Tales, Rizal exposes a colonial society of corruption and frustrated reform, in a mood graver than his first novel.
The sequel to Noli Me Tangere, by the Filipino patriot executed in 1896, a key text of Philippine nationalism. Download the free EPUB.
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