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Book : Pram's lover
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items Pramoedya Ananta Toer,is widely regarded as one of the most prolific authors in the history of Indonesian literature . Pramoedya has produced more than 50 works and translated into more than 42 foreign languages. Many of his writings touch on themes ...
In Indonesia “Cerita dari Blora”. 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 b...
All That Is Gone: Stories
In feudal Java, where both privilege and poverty lived side-by-side, women were little more than chattel. Pramoedya's The Girl From the Coast tells the story of a beautiful young woman from a fishing village who finds herself in an arranged marriage ...
The Girl From the Coast
“Teenage Virgin in Military Clutches”. This book is Pramoedya Ananta Toer's notes about the suffering of Indonesian girls who became victims of the cruelty of the Japanese army during World War II
Perawan Remaja Dalam Cengkeraman Militer (...
A disabled veteran of his country’s war of independence against the Dutch slowly succumbs to despair; a child bride’s lost innocence is cherished by her observant younger neighbour; and a young boy views his impending circumcision with anxiety and ex...
Independence Day & Other Stories
Tales from Djakarta is a collection of thirteen short stories written between 1948 and 1956 - a period of bitter transition from the revolutionary era to the beginnings of military rule in Indonesia. These stories not only give us a taste of Pramoedy...
Tales from Djakarta: Caricatures of ...
In the second volume of the Baru Tetralogy, the sequel to This Earth of Mankind follows Minke as he struggles to overcome the omnipresent injustice in the Dutch East Indies of the 1890s
Child of All Nations
The conclusion to the author's epic Buru tetralogy shifts the narrative focus to Pangemanann, the policeman who put Minke, the tetralogy's protagonist, in jail and bodies forth a nation's emergence from centuries of colonial domination.
House of Glass: A Novel
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 ...
This Earth of Mankind 1 Buru Q
As the world moves into the twentieth century, Minke, one of the few European-educated Javanese, optimistically starts a new life in a new town: Betawi. With his enrollment in medical school and the opportunity to meet new people, there is every reas...
Footsteps (Buru Quartet)
Tells the deeply affecting story of a son returning home to central Java to confront the fact of his father's death. Struggling to understand his reticent father, the son embarks on a personal quest to find value and meaning not only in his father's ...
It's Not an All Night Fair
The Mute's Soliloquy is a harrowing portrait of a penal colony and a heartbreaking remembrance of life before it. With a resonance far beyond its particular time and place, it is Pramoedya's crowning achievement--a passionate tribute to the freedom o...
The Mute's Soliloquy: A Memoir
So begins The King, the Witch and the Priest, a fable with contemporary allure that is based on the story of Calon Arang, a Javanese legend dating from the twelfth century. As tradition tells it, Calon Arang was a powerful witch from the village of G...
The King, The Witch And The Priest|Paperback
The book sets out in the form of nine letters much of the author's humanist and deeply anti-racialist philosophy as it discusses the history and needs of Indonesia's large and long-established Chinese population who were facing increasing official di...
The Chinese in Indonesia: An English Translation of Hoakiau di Indonesia|eBook
Published in Indonesia in 1950, this very early novel by Indonesia's foremost author focuses on the final days of the Japanese occupation during World War II. The main character, Hardo, and two soldier friends had aided the Japanese in ousting the Du...
Perburuan: Sebuah novel book by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Balinese drama
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