This spellbinding story, like its predecessor, This Earth of Mankind, 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. Coming to grips with the oppression and injustice of the European regime in …
A boy’s heart pound in terror as he awaits his ritual circumcision to become a true Muslim. An idealistic young soldier witnesses the barbaric beating of a man accused of being a spy. An eight-year-old girl, soon to be married off by her parents for money, brags to a playmate about the pretty clothes she will acquired. With All That Is Gone, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, author of The Buru Quart…