Archive for April 29th, 2009
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
This Earth of Mankind (Buru Quartet, book 1), by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Pramoedya Ananta Toer, who died in 2006, was an Indonesian author and political prisoner. He protested first against the treatment of the native Indonesians by their Dutch colonizers, then the World War II occupation of Indonesia by the Japanese, and then against the authoritarian regimes that replaced them. His political beliefs — which tended towards [...]