Indonesia Out of Exile: How Pramoedya's Buru Quartet Killed a Dictatorship - Paperback
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Indonesia Out of Exile: How Pramoedya's Buru Quartet Killed a Dictatorship
A nation is exiled from itself to prison; a nation is re-awakened through the storytelling of its origins; understand Indonesia through Pramoedya's books
In 1981, a new company, Hasta Mitra, founded by three men just released from over a decade in prison, published a novel written in a prison camp by Pramoedya Ananta Toer. The novel was This Earth of Mankind. It told the story of the early...
Max Lane has been engaged with Indonesia for over fifty years. In the 1970s, he translated W.S. Rendra's play The Struggle of the Naga Tribe, which was performed in English in Australia and Malaysia. He spent time with Rendra's group, Bengkel Teater. In the 1980s, he worked in the Australian Embassy in Jakarta when he started translating Pramoedya Ananta Toer's This Earth of Mankind and its three...
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