Conrado v pedroche autobiography books
A largely autobiographic novel, each chapter shines a calm, clear light into his past, a past set about a hundred years ago, in the turn-of-the-century.!
FAS-ANG first came to Baguio by way of the Mountain Trail.
When at last she emerged from her weary travel over the mountains, she found herself just above the Trinidad Valley. From there, she overlooked the city of Baguio itself.
Baguio was her destination. Along with three other women, she had planned to come to work on the numerous roads that were being built around the city.
Native women were given spades to shovel the earth from the hillsides, and to make way for the roads that were being cut.
Conrado V. Pedroche was a Filipino writer, poet, and essayist.
They had almost arrived. Yet Fas-ang knew of no place where she could live in the city while waiting to be taken in as a laborer. Perhaps she would stay in the worker’s camp and be packed with the other laborers in their smelly quarters.
She had heard a lot about tiered beds, the congestion in the long, low-roofed house for the road work¬ers.
It was mid-afternoon. The four women and three men, new immigrants from Bontoc, walked on the long straight road on the Trini