My Brother, My Executioner

My Brother, My Executioner - a novel by Filipino author Francisco Sionil José written in Philippine English. A part of the so-called Rosales Saga - a series of five interconnected fiction novels - My Brother, My Executioner ranks third in terms of chronology. In the United States, My Brother, My Executioner was published as a second part of the book, Don Vicente, together with Tree, another novel which is also a part of José’s Rosales Saga. Tree is the second novel of the historical saga, before My Brother, My Executioner. This novel was first published in the Philippines in the early 1970s

The Rosales Saga
• Po-on (1984)
• Tree (1978)
• My Brother, My Executioner (1973)
• The Pretenders (1962)
• Mass (1973)

Principal Characters:
• Luis Asperri - Victor's half-brother, illegitimate son of Don Vicente Asperri
• Don Vicente Asperri - feudal landlord, father of Luis Asperri
• Victor - Luis Asperri's half-brother
• Trining - Luis Asperri's female cousin, becomes wife of Luis
Plot/Summary:
My Brother, My Executioner, tackles the narrative about two half brothers – Luis Asperri and Victor. Luis is the biological, yet illegitimate, son of Don Vicente Asperri, a rich feudal landowner. At a young age, Luis was taken by Don Vicente from his underprivileged mother and half-brother, Victor, who were both living in Sipnget, Rosales in Pangasinan, a province in the Philippines. After studying in Manila, Luis became a writer and editor for a radical left-wing magazine. When Luis was finally able to return to Rosales, he found out that his half-brother, Vic – the nickname of Victor - became a full-pledged leader of rebels who were against the existence of rich landowners. Thus, the brothers meet again both “as allies and as adversaries” because of their opposing social beliefs, views, status and principles.[2] These conflicts are their mutual misfortunes in life as brothers. Luis identifies with the luxury offered by city life, while Vic detests these