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Buru Quartet eBook Series

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  • This Earth of Mankind

    by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Max Lane ...
    Translated by Max Lane ...
    Series Book 1 - Buru Quartet
    Minke is a young Javanese student of great intelligence and ambition. Living equally among the colonists and colonized of 19th-century Java, he battles against the confines of colonial strictures. It is his love for Annelies that enables him to find the strength to embrace his world. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Child of All Nations

    by Pramoedya Ananta Toer ...
    Translated by Max Lane ...
    Series Book 2 - Buru Quartet
    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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Footsteps

    by Pramoedya Ananta Toer ...
    Translated by Max Lane ...
    Series Book 3 - Buru Quartet
    As the world moves into the twentieth century, Minke, one of the few European-educated Javanese, optimistically starts a new life in a new town: Betawi. With his enrollment in medical school and the opportunity to meet new people, there is every reason to believe that he can leave behind the tragedies of the past. But Minke can no more escape his past than he can escape his situation as part of an ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • House of Glass

    by Pramoedya Ananta Toer ...
    Translated by Max Lane ...
    Series Book 4 - Buru Quartet
    With House Of Glass comes the final chapter of Pramoedya's epic quartet, set in the Dutch East Indies at the turn of the century. A novel of heroism, passion, and betrayal, it provides a spectacular conclusion to a series hailed as one of the great works of modern literature. At the start of House of Glass, Minke, writer and leader of the dissident movement, is now imprisoned—and the narrative has ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Luminaries

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