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Bumi Manusia (Tetralogi Buru #1)

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Bumi Manusia (Tetralogi Buru #1)

by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Format: Paperback, Indonesian
535 page(s)
ISBN/ISBN13: 9799731232/9789799731234
Published Jan 01, 2005 by Lentera Dipantara

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Minke is a young Javanese student of great intelligence and ambition. Living equally among the colonists and colonized of 19th-century Java, he battles against the confines of colonial strictures. It is his love for Annelies that enables him to find the strength to embrace his world.


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Bumi Manusia remains one of the most important read on postcolonialism, and the life during the colonization of ‘Dutch East Indies’.
Anggita Paramesti  in Bumi Manusia (This Earth of Mankind) – Pramoedya Ananta Toer (Personal Blog, Jan 05, 2020)


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