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It's Not an All Night Fair Paperback / softback - 2006
by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
- New
- Paperback
Now available for the first time in English, a classic from "a novelist who should get in line for the Nobel Prize" (Los Angeles Times)
Pramoedya Ananta Toer is Indonesia's most celebrated writer, with over thirty works of fiction translated into over thirty languages, and the recipient of many major international awards, including the grand prize in the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize competition, Japan's highest literary honor. Narrated in the first person in Pramoedya's signature style, It's Not an All Night Fair 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 life but also in his own.
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- Title It's Not an All Night Fair
- Author Pramoedya Ananta Toer
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition New
- Pages 112
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 2006-10-01
- Features Annotated, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # B9780143037026
- ISBN 9780143037026 / 0143037021
- Weight 0.21 lbs (0.10 kg)
- Dimensions 7.82 x 5.1 x 0.32 in (19.86 x 12.95 x 0.81 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Fathers and sons
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006044800
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
Pramoedya Ananta Toer is Indonesia's most celebrated writer, with over thirty works of fiction translated into over thirty languages, and the recipient of many major international awards, including the grand prize in the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize competition, Japan's highest literary honor. Narrated in the first person in Pramoedya's signature style, It's Not an All Night Fair 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 life but also in his own.
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- Multicultural Review, 05/01/2007, Page 13