Books by José Rizal

Noli Me Tangere

José Rizal

Rizal's incendiary portrait of the Spanish colonial Philippines follows Crisóstomo Ibarra, home from Europe with plans to build a school, as the friars who rule the islands destroy him. The book moves between the capital and the provinces: the merchant houses of Binondo, the walled clerical fortress of Intramuros, the promenades along the Pasig, the killing field of Bagumbayan where the author himself would later be shot, and Ibarra's home town of San Diego in the countryside to the south.

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