Status
Available
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Series
Collection
Publication
Penguin (Non-Classics) (1996), Paperback, 352 pages
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.
User reviews
LibraryThing member julsitos2
Wow! This is a must read for all colonized people. It simply states the grand abuses and oppressions of a puny, abusive, and resourceless Dutch nation over the Indonesian race and how the oppressed grind their teeth tolerating the masters' abuses. And it speaks of Minke, the educated native whose
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eyes are opened to the realities of colonial life and how he plans to liberate his people. Show Less
LibraryThing member hellbent
Excellent historical novel of turn-of-century Java, still under Dutch colonial rule.
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Language
Original language
Indonesian
Original publication date
1980 (Indonesian)
1982 (English)
Physical description
352 p.; 7.86 inches
ISBN
0140256334 / 9780140256338