José Rizal

Touch Me Not (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

After seven years abroad, Crisóstomo Ibarra returns home to help his family following the loss of his father. Sensing hostility from Padre Dámaso, the local curate, he begins to question the mysterious circumstances surrounding Don Rafael Ibarra's death. Although he wants to put the past behind him, Crisóstomo uncovers a terrifying conspiracy. Touch Me Not is a novel by José Rizal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 468
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781513223414
• Artikelnr.: 62234942

Autorenporträt

José Rizal (1861-1896) was a Filipino poet, novelist, sculptor, painter, and national hero. Born in Calamba, Rizal was raised in a mestizo family of eleven children who lived and worked on a farm owned by Dominican friars. As a boy, he excelled in school and won several poetry contests. At the University of Santo Tomas, he studied philosophy and law before devoting himself to ophthalmology upon hearing of his mother's blindness. In 1882, he traveled to Madrid to study medicine before moving to Germany, where he gave lectures on Tagalog. In Heidelberg, while working with pioneering ophthalmologist Otto Becker, Rizal finished writing his novel Touch Me Not (1887). Now considered a national epic alongside its sequel The Reign of Greed (1891), Touch Me Not is a semi-autobiographical novel that critiques the actions of the Catholic Church and Spanish Empire in his native Philippines. In 1892, he returned to Manila and founded La Liga Filipina, a secret organization dedicated to social reform. Later that year, he was deported to Zamboanga province, where he built a school, hospital, and water supply system. During this time, the Katipunan, a movement for liberation from Spanish rule, began to take shape in Manila, eventually resulting in the Philippine Revolution in 1896. For his writing against colonialism and association with active members of Katipunan, Rizal was arrested while traveling to Cuba via Spain. On December 30, 1896, he was executed by firing squad on the outskirts of Manila and buried in an unmarked grave.