Noli Me Tangere

在线阅读本书 In more than a century since its appearance, José Rizals Noli Me Tangere has become widely known as the great novel of the Philippines. A passionate love story set against the ugly political backdrop of repression, torture, and murder, The Noli, as it is called in the Philippines, was the first major artistic manifestation of Asian resistance to European colonialism, and Rizal became a guiding conscienceand martyrfor the revolution that would subsequently rise up in the Spanish province. BACKCOVER: A beautiful new translation... Rizals rich, moving novel...[is] perhaps the most important novel in Philippine literature. Jessica Hagedorn