This new edition of OLVIDON is much thicker because it now includes all the short stories in the collection, PLATINUM. The title story of the collection, is one of the three novellas in the author's THREE FILIPINO WOMEN. The fairy tales for adults: The Moth and the Sunbeam and The Fruits of Gaget are now in a special coloring book edition together with the author's other children's stories. In this collection of short fiction, F. Sionil José — the Philippines' most widely translated author—takes his readers into that intriguing and fascinating landscape of the Filipino condition. The title story is a graphic allegorical rendering of the disease which has long afflicted the upper reaches of Filipino society. Then with the deft strokes of a master storyteller, the author takes his readers into the far reaches and the inner depths of the Filipino experience. F. Sionil José is best known for his epic work, the five-novel Rosales saga which encompasses a hundred years of tumultuous Philippine history, starting with the martyrdom of the three Filipino priests in 1872, and culminating with the start of Martial Law in 1972.