''Cry Slaughter!'' is a 1957 novel by

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author

Edilberto K. Tiempo Edilberto Kaindong Tiempo (August 5, 1913 – September 19, 1996) was a Filipino writer and professor. He and his wife, Edith L. Tiempo, are credited by Silliman University with establishing "a tradition in excellence in creative writing an ...

. Before the novel’s revision for publication in the

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, it was first published in the

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as ''Watch in the Night'' in 1953. In the United States, the renamed novel was printed four times by Avon in

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. In 1959, ''Cry Slaughter!'' was published and assigned the number R306 by Digit Books. It had been published as a

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book in

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. It had been translated into six languages in other parts of

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.Edilberto K. Tiempo
, panitikan.com: ''(...) "as well as the novels Cry Slaughter (1957), which had four New York printings and six European translations" (...)''

Plot description

The setting of ''Cry Slaughter!'' was

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. The novel narrates the story of guerrillas who were unwilling to surrender while awaiting the return of the armed forces of the United States. In addition, the novel features the tale about the girlfriend of a guerrilla lover. The woman chose to disobey the will of her pro-Japanese parents. The woman decided to join her lover in a hiding place in the hills.

Historical background

During the Japanese occupation period of the Philippines, the manuscript for E. K. Tiempo’s ''Cry Slaughter!'' was smuggled out of the country aboard a submarine. For the duration of World War II, the novel was suppressed by the

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When published, the novel was mass marketed in

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format. ''Cry Slaughter'' was described by

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and James Robert Rush in the book entitled ''Asia in Western Fiction'' as “one of the few books that mingle melodrama and style”. It was further described as a book that “can be taken as a fairly reliable indicator of real attitudes in a real place at a real time”.Winks, Robin W. and James Robert Rush
Asia in Western Fiction
Volume 1990, Part 2, books.google.com According to Winks and Rush, ''Cry Slaughter!'' – among many other literature written by Filipino writers in the English-language – that belongs to the "domain of American writing that spans about a century". For Winks and Rush, each Filipino author like Edilberto K. Tiempo is within a "class of his own and apart from one another".

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Plot description

Historical background

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