Child of All Nations

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 05/01/1996
ISBN: 9780140256338
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 7.86h x 5.06w x 0.81d

Review Citations: New York Times 06/09/1996 pg. 36