Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Paperback | Pages: 352 pages Rating: 4.37 | 5833 Users | 466 Reviews
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| Title | : | Child of All Nations (Tetralogi Buru #2) |
| Author | : | Pramoedya Ananta Toer |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 352 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 1996 by Penguin Books (first published 1975) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Asian Literature. Indonesian Literature. Novels. Historical. Historical Fiction |
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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.Itemize Books Concering Child of All Nations (Tetralogi Buru #2)
| Original Title: | Anak Semua Bangsa |
| ISBN: | 0140256334 (ISBN13: 9780140256338) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Tetralogi Buru #2 |
| Characters: | Minke, Nyai Ontosoroh, Khouw Ah Soe |
| Setting: | Indonesia |
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This is the second book of the Buru tetralogy. It tells a story through the eyes of Minke, a young Native in colonial Indonesia at the turn of the nineteenth century. Although I rated the first books in the series (This Earth of Mankind) high, I enjoyed this one a great deal more.At the end of the last book, Minkes marriage to Annelies has been effectively annulled, and she is sent to the Netherlands by her Dutch half brother and his mother, to ensure that they have access to her inheritance.Child of all Nations (Anak Semua Bangsa) is the second in the Pramoedya Ananta Toers Buru Quartet, so called because it was conceived on the island of Buru where he was imprisoned without trial in 1965 when the military dictatorship of President Suharto cracked down on anyone suspected of communist sympathies. Access to books and writing materials were prohibited in the prison, but Pramoedya narrated his novels to his fellow-prisoners, and was finally able to write them down in 1975. Child of
a very good introduction into Indonesia's history and to be aware of what kind of harm colonialism did to the society
The last chapter is the best part. Surati's story is the second best part.
The second in Toer's humanistic, postcolonial epic. As with This Earth of Mankind, I spent a lot of time thinking "good lord, it's been ages since anyone's written a novel like this." Something with this degree of scope, of complexity. There's less romance and less family in Child of All Nations, and a lot more struggle. Struggle against the colonizers, struggle against the Javanese feudalists, struggles against the comprador classes, struggle against generally shitty people, struggle against
As with the first volume in this quartet, it's all about the history of colonial exploitation of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), the complex layers of ethnic and linguistic discrimination, a critique of capitalism and a call for revolutionary change - the plot itself is somewhat stilted but intriguing in its own atmospheric way.
There are far, far smarter people than me who have far, far smarter things to say about this. This novel rocked my world and left my head spinning. All I can is that Child of All Nations tackles everything and does it so freaking well. Here is just the beginning of a list. - The roles of 'true' journalism and press in a propagandist system- Language politics that play out right on the page- Gendered power dynamics that can be subverted, even if just momentarily- Commercialism and the
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