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Child of All Nations
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
出版
Penguin
, 1996-05-01
主題
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Sagas
ISBN
110161532X
9781101615324
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Ka1_AAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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.