Ismael A. Amado

Biography

Ismael A. Amado wrote Bulalakaw ng Pag-asa, a Tagalog novel listed on this site under his name. The title can be rendered as 'Shooting Star of Hope', since bulalakaw means a shooting star and pag-asa means hope. The catalogue describes the book as a patriotic novel from the first decade of American rule in the Philippines.

No Wikipedia article about him was found, so his birth and death dates are not given. A search of Wikipedia turns up other people of the same name in Philippine history, but nothing links them to this author, and readers should not assume they are the same person.

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Books

1. Bulalakaw ng Pag-asa

   by Ismael A. Amado

   When a swaggering American newcomer assaults a Filipino shopkeeper who refuses him credit, and the police only watch, nineteen-year-old Gerardo steps in. The fight sets him on a course of love for the gentle Eling and of defiance toward the bullies, local bosses and foreign…

   Summary written by Claude Opus 5.5.