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Child of All Nations

Child of All Nations Paperback - 1996

by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

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The second book in the epic quartet of novels known to some as the Buru Tetralogy. This vivid story of awakening follows the main character from This Earth of Mankind as he struggles to overcome the omnipresent injustices in the Dutch East Indies of the 1890s.

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Penguin Publishing Group, 1996. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Child of All Nations
  • Author Pramoedya Ananta Toer
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 2
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
  • Date 1996
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0140256334I3N00
  • ISBN 9780140256338 / 0140256334
  • Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.86 x 5.06 x 0.81 in (19.96 x 12.85 x 2.06 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
    • Cultural Region: Oceania
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Indonesia - History - 1798-1942
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

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.

From the publisher

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.

Media reviews

Citations

  • New York Times, 06/09/1996, Page 36

About the author

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.