
A Child of All Nations
Pramoedya Ananta Toer(Author)
Penguin Books Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 27. February 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-14-025633-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 whirlpool that was the Dutch East Indies of the 1890s. A story of awakening, it follows Minke, the main character of This Earth of Mankind, as he struggles to overcome the injustice all around him. Pramoedya's full literary genius is evident in the brilliant characters that populate this world: Minke's fragile Mixed-Race wife; a young Chinese revolutionary; an embattled Javanese peasant and his impoverished family; the French painter Jean Marais, to name just a few.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
378 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-025633-8 (9780140256338)
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Pramoedya Ananta Toer, born on the island of Java in 1925, was imprisoned first by the Dutch, then by the Indonesian government as a political prisoner. He received the PEN Freedom to Write Award and the Ramon Magsaysay Award.