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Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Child of All Nations

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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.
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  • Fina Ameliashared an impression6 years ago
    💡Learnt A Lot
    💞Loved Up
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    • Novita Rondonuwuhas quoted5 years ago
      Imitating is only a chapter in the life of all children. But then there comes a day when children are fully grown. People should prepare themselves to confront that day. Don’t be startled, or shocked and overcome, if on that day reality rears up before you larger than you could ever imagine.
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      • Novita Rondonuwuhas quoted5 years ago
        All people and races began by imitating before they could stand by themselves. People should indeed learn to get used to new realities. Reality doesn’t go away because people don’t like it, or just because they insult it.
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        • Novita Rondonuwuhas quoted5 years ago
          The busier people become with their searching and their discoveries, the clearer it becomes that they are in fact being pursued by the anxiousness of their own hearts
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