Indonesia Out of Exile: How Pramoedya's Buru Quartet Killed a Dictatorship

by Max Lane

Book Overview

A nation is exiled from itself to prison; a nation is re-awakened through the storytelling of its origins; understand Indonesia through Pramoedya's books

In 1981, a new company, Hasta Mitra, founded by three men just released from over a decade in prison, published a novel written in a prison camp by Pramoedya Ananta Toer. The novel was This Earth of Mankind. It told the story of the early gestation of the Indonesian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9814914177
• ISBN13: 9789814914178
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Penguin Random House Sea
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"