About “My Brother, My Executioner”
Set against the Hukbalahap uprising of the 1950s, the novel's conflict goes beyond the guerrilla war to a deeper, symbolic conflict between two brothers from vastly different, estranged worlds, and the trauma of traditional society undergoing change as the old refuse to let go. Don Vicente, the landlord who dominates the earlier novel Tree without appearing in it, returns to his town to die as the central figure here, with his illegitimate son Luis as his last hope for an heir, and Luis's half-brother Victor as an unflinching, doomed rebel.
Book details
- First published
- 1973