Tao! Tao! Tao!: A Novel of Philippines

How do the ordinary people - the Tao - retain their hope and romance amid the torments and insults of harsh conditions and unjust systems? Between the wealth of the sugar society and the mountainous fringes of civilisation, a family endures its suffering and finds a way to show their collective power to challenge the careless elites.

Don Townsend, from a large and poor family in Australia, has worked and travelled in fifty countries over the last forty years. Yet Negros is stunning in its mixture of beauty and squalor, resources and injustice, hope and despair. This story is one small voice, pending the local people’s own tumult for justice.