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Earnest, grave, classical in form and prestige.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Pramoedya Ananta Toer
- First published
- May 1, 1996
- Pages
- 360
- Publisher
- Rivages, Penguin Books Ltd, Wira Karya
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- Dutch, English, may, ind
- ISBN
- 9780140256352
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“People called me Minke.”
Pramoedya Ananta Toer was born in Blora, Java, which was part of the Dutch East Indies at the time, the son of a teacher and a rice trader. After he graduated from school, Japanese forces invaded and occupied Indonesia, and Pramoedya worked as a typist for a Japanese newspaper in Jakarta. When World War II ended, Pramoedya joined the war for Indonesian independence, and while he was stationed in Jakarta he began writing fiction as well as propaganda for the Nationalist cause. In 1947 he was captured by the Dutch forces and remained in prison until Indonesia achieved independence in 1949, the year the Netherlands recognized Indonesian independence. He wrote his first major novel, The Fugitive
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