Books by Pramoedya Ananta Toer (2)


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All That Is Gone by Pramoedya Ananta Toer EN

Rating: 4     1 Vote
Country: Asia / Indonesia flag Indonesia
Description:
Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s transcendent novels have become part of the world literary canon, but it is his short fiction that originally made him famous. The first full-size collection of his short stories to appear in English, All That Is Gone draws from the author’s own experiences in Indonesia to depict characters trying to make sense of a war-torn culture haunted by colonialism, among them an eight-year-old girl soon to be married off by her parents for money and an idealistic young soldier who witnesses the savage beating of a man accused of being a spy. Though violence and brutality pervade... continue
Recommended: 11 Aug 2023

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This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer EN

Rating: 4     5 Votes
Country: Asia / Indonesia flag Indonesia
Description:
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 world.
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Recommended: 27 Feb 2022


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