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Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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…
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This is the second in a series of four novels which emerged from the time Toer spent as a political prisoner, without trial, from 1965 to 1979 on Eastern Indonesia’s…
Indonesia’s most celebrated writer speaks out against tyranny and injustice in a young and troubled nation.
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Pramoedya’s semi-autobiographical stories deal with life’s major themes: birth and death, sexual knowledge and love, compassion and revenge. This is the first time Pramoedya’s short fiction has been widely available…
Originally published in the journal: Indonesia (Ithaca, N.Y.)–Apr. 1973, no. 15.
A translation of short stories by the well-known Indonesian author, Pramoedya Ananta Toer. Written in the 1950s, these stories are intensely regional in flavor and modern in approach. This collection…
Pramoedya A Toer
The author was exiled in 1965 by Indonesian authorities to the penal island of Buru, where he was imprisoned for 11 years. He not only survived under brutal conditions, but…
Centuries ago, there was, in the eastern part of the island of Java, a kingdom by the name of Daha… So begins The King, the Witch and the Priest, a…
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The third in a series of four novels, set at the turn of the century, which chronicle the birth of modern Indonesia through the story of Minke, an aspiring Javanese…
