01194nam a2200205Ia 450000500170000000800410001724500700005810000200012826000490014830000150019730000110021202000180022365000330024105000230027454600150029752006410031233600090095333700150096233800110097720260803094211.0251212s2001    xx            000 0 und d1 aO.C.W. : ba young boy's search for his mother /cCarla M. Pacis.1 aPacis, Carla M.  aPasay City :bAnvil Publishing, Inc.,c2001.  a182 pages:  c21 cm.  a9789711902131  aPhilippine fiction (English)  a895.9599 P11o 2001  ain English  aA mother leaves her loved ones to work in Honk Kong, hoping to make a better life for her husband and children. Her departure, however, threatens to tear apart the very family she leaves for love.  Out of a sense of desperation and responsibility as the eldest son, Tonio embarks on an almost foolhardly quest to leave the island where he was born and bring his mother back home. The adventure he meets and the characters he encounters, from the dark ports of Manila to the glittering streets of Hong kong, gives uncanny life to the issues of familial sacrifice and overseas labor which have now marked the lives of numerouse Filipinos.  atext  aunmediated  avolume