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All That Is Gone
Written by Aamer Hussein, originally published in Independent
Dec 31, 2004
All That Is Gone
Written by Aamer Hussein, originally published in Independent
Dec 31, 2004
The first volume of the Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer's epic quartet of novels set in the Dutch East Indies in the early 20th century, This Earth of Mankind, appeared in an English translation in 1982. It was followed two years later by Child of All Nations. The narrator, Minke, an aspiring writer and budding nationalist, tells of love, work and disappointment in the contrasting milieux of Javanese tradition and Dutch colonial hegemony, with a warmth and intimacy that seem to derive from personal experience.
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