Description
In this sweeping novel, Jose “Pepe” Samson—bright, restless, and unwilling to be shaped by convention—finds his life pulled into a larger struggle for dignity and reform. As a movement gathers momentum, the story follows the fight for human rights and the widening reach of justice into students’ rights, tenants’ rights, and women’s rights, revealing how oppression spreads when society treats people as commodities. Through Pepe’s evolving choices and the collective momentum of ordinary lives, the book asks what it means to value a person beyond labor, status, or usefulness. With its socially charged realism and moral clarity, Mass argues that a society obsessed with “calculating a man’s price” ultimately devalues everyone—and demands that readers confront the cost of silence.
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paperback
Unknown
Published Jan 1, 1983
256 pages
ISBN: 9789718845035
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Details
First Published
1979
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Mass by F. Sionil José.