Sins
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Author(s)F. Sionil Jose
PublisherRandom House
ISBN / ASIN0679420185
ISBN-139780679420187
Sales Rank3,659,994
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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"Thank God for exceptions like myself" says filthy rich Don Carlos Cobello, for the rest of his country "is silly." The country in question is the Philippines, where corruption is strictly the rule. From his deathbed, Don Carlos looks back on the life he has led, from his initiation at the family's private bordello to his reign as head of a worldwide family business empire and then on to an appointment as ambassador to Peru. But--wonder of wonders--it turns out that money can't always buy love and happiness. In the end it is the barefoot servant girl of his youth that the mighty Don Carlos pines for.