Women of Tammuz

The Women of Tammuz is a 2004 prize-winning novel written by Filipino author Azucena Grajo-Uranza[1] It won two Philippine National Book Awards in 2004, namely the Juan C. Laya Award for being the Best Novel in a Philippine Language, and the Juan C. Laya Award for being the Best Novel in a Foreign Language.[2][3] After Bamboo in the Wind, the Women of Tammuz is chronologically the third in Uranza's saga and is followed by the Feast of the Innocents.

Women of Tammuz
Book cover
AuthorAzucena Grajo Uranza
CountryPhilippines
LanguageEnglish literature
GenreFiction
PublishedMakati City: Bookmark, 2004
Media typeBook
Pages482
ISBN971-569-494-2
OCLC60453846
Preceded byA Passing Season 
Followed byFeast of the Innocents 

Description

In the Women of Tammuz Uranza traced the lives of Filipinos, most of which are women through the peaceful and untroubled days before the Second World War up to the Japanese Occupation period. The war novel ends with the emancipation of Manila. According to F. Sionil José, Women of Tammuz is “more than a novel on the war, [ it ] portrays evocatively the courage of ordinary Filipinos as they persevere through tragedy”.[2][3]

References
  1. Azucena Grajo Uranza, panitikan.com
  2. "Women of Tammuz" by Azucena Grajo-Uranza, nbdb.gov.ph
  3. "Women of Tammuz" by Azucena Grajo-Uranza, Philippine National Book Awards, Annual Awards for Outstanding Philippine Books, The Manila Critics Circle, manilacritics.tripod.com


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