Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Author Avon Books $8.94 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71496-4
Young Indonesian platoon commander Raden Hardo, his nationalist army revolt quashed by a traitorous coconspirator, returns to Java in disguise only to be betrayed to the Japanese. Written in 1947, while Pramoedya was in a Dutch forced-labor camp, ``t
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Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Author William Morrow & Company $26 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-14594-1
Police commissioner Tuan Pangemanann, narrator of this concluding volume to Pramoedya's extraordinary tetralogy set in colonial Indonesia, is a Sorbonne-educated reactionary, a consummate hypocrite, a cultivated monster, a sadist with pangs of...
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Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Author, Max Lane, Translator Penguin Books $17 (384p) ISBN 978-0-14-025679-6
This story of a brutal, conflicted colonial administrator concludes what PW called an ""extraordinary"" quartet of novels by a jailed Indonesian dissident. (July)
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Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Author, Max Lane, Translator William Morrow & Company $23 (474p) ISBN 978-0-688-13748-9
A vibrant portrait of a people coalescing into nationhood, this third volume of a projected tetralogy (the Buru quartet) by Indonesian novelist Pramoedya continues the story begun in Child of All Nations and This Earth of Mankind. The protagonist is
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Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Author, Max Lane, Translator William Morrow & Company $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-09373-0
Toer ( The Fugitive ), an Indonesian novelist and political dissident, began this novel as a series of stories told to fellow political prisoners held on Buru Island. The tale is narrated mostly by a brilliant young student, Minke, a native among...
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Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Author, Max Lane, Translator Avon Books $10 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71974-7
Indonesian novelist and political dissident Toer's compelling tale of love and colonialism is narrated by a young native student in turn-of-the-century Java who becomes involved in the intrigues of one of the island's leading families. (Jan.)
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Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Author, Willem Samuels, Translator , trans. from the Indonesian by Willem Samuels. Hyperion East $23.95 (255p) ISBN 978-1-4013-6663-6
In these early stories, many appearing in English for the first time, one of Indonesia's leading writers illuminates with a quiet ferocity some of the most turbulent years in his nation's history. Often told through a child's observant...
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Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Author, Willem Samuels, Translator Hyperion Books $31 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6416-4
Only its fragmentary structure (for which there is good reason) will keep Pramoedya's memoir from being ranked with Eugenia Ginzburg's Journey into the Whirlwind among the great documents by 20th-century political prisoners. Written on Buru Island...
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Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Author, Willem Samuels, Translator William Morrow & Company $16.95 (171p) ISBN 978-0-688-08698-5
Indonesia under Japan's brutal occupation during WW II is the setting for this electifying novel, written in 1947 while Pramoedya was in a Dutch forced-labor camp. The hero, Raden Hardo, a young Indonesian platoon commander, leads a nationalist army
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