Child of All Nations (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780140256338)

In Child of All Nations, the reader is immediately swept up by a story that is profoundly feminist, devastatingly anticolonialist--and full of heartbreak, suspense, love, and fury. Pramoedya immerses the reader in a world that is astonishing in its vividness: the cultural whirlpool that was the Dutch East Indies of the 1890s. A story of awakening, it follows Minke, the main character of This Earth of Mankind, as he struggles to overcome the injustice all around him. Pramoedya's full literary genius is evident in the brilliant characters that populate this world: Minke's fragile Mixed-Race wife; a young Chinese revolutionary; an embattled Javanese peasant and his impoverished family; the French painter Jean Marais, to name just a few.

Author: Pramoedya Ananta Toer
ISBN-10: 0140256334
ISBN-13: 9780140256338
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 05/01/1996
Pages: 354
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 7.86h x 5.06w x 0.81d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 06/09/1996 pg. 36