Carlos Bulosan

America Is in the Heart

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First published in 1943, this classic memoir by well-known Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West.
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414 printed pages
Original publication
2014
Publication year
2014
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  • b5027035902shared an impression5 years ago
    👍Worth reading

    I love the book. It shows what the Filipinos had experienced in the hands of the Americans.

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  • MarlonM PlayzYThas quoted4 years ago
    “It is for the workers that we must write,” he said weakly. “We must interpret their hopes as a people desiring the fullest fulfillment of their potentialities. We must be strong of voice, objective of criticism, protest and challenge. There is no other way to combat any attempts to suppress individual liberty….”
  • MarlonM PlayzYThas quoted4 years ago
    I find escape in books, and also discovery of a world I had not known before….”
  • MarlonM PlayzYThas quoted4 years ago
    It was like going to war with other soldiers; some survived death but could not survive life.

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