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Availability:In StockContributor:Andrea Hirata, Angie Kilbane (Translator)Publish date:2014-02-11Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Sarah Crichton BooksISBN-13:9780374534448ISBN-10:374534446UPC:9780374534448Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Coming of Age, World LiteratureBook Topic:Southeast AsiaSize:7.88 x 5.61 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SC8XX7401M

From Indonesia, an inspiring, record-breaking bestseller--and a modern-day fairy tale

Published in Indonesia in 2005, The Rainbow Troops, Andrea Hirata's closely autobiographical debut novel, sold more than five million copies, shattering records. Now it promises to captivate audiences around the globe.

Ikal is a student at the poorest village school on the Indonesian island of Belitong, where graduating from sixth grade is considered remarkable. His school is under constant threat of closure. Ikal and his friends--a group nicknamed the Rainbow Troops--face threats from every angle: skeptical government officials, greedy corporations, deepening poverty, crumbling infrastructure, and their own low self-confidence.

But the students also have hope, which comes in the form of two extraordinary teachers, and Ikal's education in and out of the classroom is an uplifting one. We root for him as he defies the island's tin mine officials. We meet his first love, the unseen girl who sells chalk from behind a shop screen, whose pretty hands capture Ikal's heart. We cheer for Lintang, the class's barefoot math genius, as he bests the students of the mining corporation's school in an academic challenge. Above all, we gain an intimate acquaintance with the customs and people of the world's largest Muslim society.

This is classic storytelling in the spirit of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner: an engrossing depiction of a milieu we have never encountered before, bursting with charm and verve.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Sarah Crichton BooksISBN-13:9780374534448ISBN-10:374534446UPC:9780374534448Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Coming of Age, World LiteratureBook Topic:Southeast AsiaSize:7.88 x 5.61 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SC8XX7401M

Andrea Hirata is an Indonesian writer. He was a participant in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 2010. His first novel, The Rainbow Troops (Laskar Pelangi), sold more than five million copies in Indonesia, making him the country's bestselling writer of all time, as well as its first to enjoy truly international success: The Rainbow Troops has been published or is forthcoming in twenty-three countries and counting. Hirata has written three sequels to The Rainbow Troops: Sang Pemimpi (The Dreamer), Edensor, and Maryama Karpov. He lives in Indonesia.


Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books

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