Pramoedya Ananta Toer

This Earth of Mankind

Novel depicting Indonesian colonialism and birth of nationalism

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Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Indonesia's greatest novelist, who wrote the Buru Quartet while imprisoned on Buru Island under Suharto's dictatorship. This epic of Indonesian colonialism and nationalism is among the greatest works of world literature.

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