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Paperback Footsteps (Penguin International Writers) Book

ISBN: 0140126937

ISBN13: 9780140126938

Footsteps (Penguin International Writers)

(Book #3 in the Tetralogi Buru Series)

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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 tragedies of the past. But Minke can no more escape his past than he can escape his situation as part of an oppressed people under a foreign power. As his world...

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Rated 5 stars
Needed to complete the magnificent quartet

I agree that this third book of the great Buru Quartet should not be read first, as it would be not make sense, and therefore might be boring. Yet, it is the necessary transition between the early life of Minke (Toer's alter ego) in books 1 and 2, and the final summary book, House of Glass. It covers the important period when Menke becomes convinced that he must lead his people against the oppression of the Dutch Government,...

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Rated 5 stars
Great historical novel

This book is a great novel about Dutch occupation of Indonesia. Very interesting and good history presented in novel form.

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Rated 4 stars
Development of a Nationalist Critic

As we follow the developing story of Minke, we watch his footsteps leave the place of the former story and begin to explore the outside world through the study of medicine. It is clear that this study will yield for him government employment and the opportunity to help his fellow people. At the same time this is happening, he is constantly aware and being made more aware by those around him of his own people and how little...

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