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 … [Read more...]
House of Glass
May 19, 2018 by
HOUSE OF GLASS is the final volume of Pramoedya Ananta Toer's acclaimed BURU quartet, which chronicles the turbulent history of early twentieth-century, Dutch colonial Indonesia through the eyes of Minke, a Dutch-educated Javanese writer. By now, Minke has risen to become a leading dissident and is … [Read more...]
Footsteps
May 19, 2018 by
As the world moves into the twentieth century, Minke, one of the few European-educated Javanese, optimistically starts a new life in a new town: Betawi. With his enrollment in medical school and the opportunity to meet new people, there is every reason to believe that he can leave behind the … [Read more...]
Child of All Nations
May 19, 2018 by
Pramoedya Ananta Toer has been compared to John Steinbeck (The Washington Post), Nadine Gordimer (The Nation), and Charles Dickens (Publishers Weekly). He shares with Naguib Mahfouz the ability to "achieve what few writers today are able to accomplish: drawing the reader, body and soul, into another … [Read more...]
The King, the Witch and the Priest : A Twelfth-Century Javanese Tale (Calon Arang)
May 19, 2018 by
"Centuries ago, there was, in the eastern part of the island of Java, a kingdom by the name of Daha..." So begins The King, the Witch and the Priest, a fable with contemporary allure that is based on the story of Calon Arang, a Javanese legend dating from the twelfth century. As tradition tells it, … [Read more...]
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