Ang Filibusterismo
Ang Filibusterismo (El Filibusterismo, "The Reign of Greed") is José Rizal's 1891 sequel to Noli Me Tangere and, with it, one of the cornerstone works of Philippine national literature. Its thirteen-year exile of a hero returns as its darkest figure: Crisostomo Ibarra, believed dead, has reinvented himself as Simoun, a rich and influential jeweler who has won the confidence of the Spanish colonial elite.
Outwardly Simoun is a friend of Spain; inwardly he is consumed by a plan for terrible revenge, smuggling weapons and stoking unrest to ignite an uprising against the corrupt officials and friars who destroyed his life and his country. As his conspiracy tightens around students, priests, and lovers — Basilio, Isagani, Kabesang Tales, Father Florentino — Rizal turns a searching, pessimistic eye on whether violent revolution can ever redeem a broken nation. Where the Noli exposed the disease of colonial rule, the Fili asks what cure, if any, is worth its cost.
The wealthy jeweler and secret revolutionary who was once the idealist Ibarra of Noli Me Tangere.
A poor medical student drawn into Simoun's orbit and the wider unrest.
An idealistic young poet whose love ultimately derails Simoun's plan.
The priest to whom the dying Simoun confesses at the novel's end.