Buru Quartet This Earth of Mankind, Book 1, (Paperback)

from theonearmedcrab

"This Earth of this Mankind" (1975) is the first of the Buru Quartet of historical novels written by Indonesian author Pramoedya Ananta Toer. The other three are "Child of all Nations", "Footsteps"...

from yooperprof

Pramoedya Ananta Toer's "This Earth of Mankind" is the first in a quartet of novels that focus upon an young upper class Javanese man's gradual realization of the depth of corruption in the Dutch c...

from deebee1

From one of the most influential authors of Southeast Asia, this book, first in a series, was written by Toer while he was a political prisoner in the island prison of Buru in the 1970s. It started...

from deebee1

From one of the most influential authors of Southeast Asia, this book, first in a series, was written by Toer while he was a political prisoner in the island prison of Buru in the 1970s. It started...

from islandgirl1990

This is quite possibly the best novel I have ever read. As a person of mixed Indonesian-Australian heritage, it was a particularly potent, and personally relevant read. This book has taught me so m...