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With House Of Glass comes the final chapter of Pramoedya's epic quartet, set in the Dutch East Indies at the turn of the century. A novel of heroism, passion, and betrayal, it provides a spectacular conclusion to a series hailed as one of the great works of modern literature. At…
This is the 4th, and final novel about Minke, but this one is narrated by Pangemanann, a native policeman assigned to monitor Minke and his followers.
In Child of All Nations, the reader is immediately swept up by a story that is profoundly feminist, devastatingly anticolonialist'and full of heartbreak, suspense, love, and fury. Pramoedya immerses the reader in a world that is astonishing in its vividness: the cultural whirlpo…
"This spellbinding story has its origins in a series of tales related orally by Pramoedya Ananta Toer to his fellow prisoners in an Indonesian prison. Child of All Nations follows the political awakening of its hero, the extraordinary Minke, a Dutch-educated Javanese writer. Com…
"Coming to grips with the oppression and injustice of the European regime in his country, Minke, [the Dutch-educated javaese writer] struggles to assert his voice and the voices of his people - but he is met at every turn by the corruption of those he trusted and by the tragedie…
This earth of mankind
by Lane, Max, (Maxwell Ronald), Toer, Pramoedya Ananta
fromBuru quartet
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Type: Book
Minke is a young Javanese student of great intelligence and ambition. Living equally among the colonists and colonized of 19th-century Java, he battles against the confines of colonial strictures. It is his love for Annelies that enables him to find the strength to embrace his w…