''More Than Conquerors'' is the second novel by
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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 ...
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[... the award-winning More Than Conquerors (1982)...]
, panitikan.com[... More than conquerors; a prize-winning novel...]
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The novel first appeared in 1959 in the pages of ''Weekly Women’s Magazine''.
[... and Edilberto K. Tiempo’s More Than Conquerors first appeared in the Weekly Women’s Magazine in 1959...]
upd.edu.ph It was first published in book format in 1964.
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Description
With the Filipino resistance movement during the Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
employed as the “background” of the novel, the focus of the narrative is Andres, a lawyer, and his two brothers. The three brothers were tortured by the Japanese occupiers through the horizontal spread-eagle "crucifixion" method. The brothers’ predicament echoed a similarity to “the Christ figure in the midst of temptation and at Calvary”.[More Than Conquerors by Edilberto K. Tiempo]
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Other books by Edilberto Tiempo
1959 novels
Philippine novels
Novels set during World War II
Novels set in the Philippines
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