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Early 1900s: The first of the Tetralogi Buru Series
This Earth of Mankind
What you need to know before your trail
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.
Travel Guide
Travel to Dutch East Indies in Indonesia, 1890s.
The Buru tetralogy was composed orally on Buru Island during the first half of the author’s fourteen-year imprisonment without trial. Writing or reading anything but religious texts was strictly forbidden. Pramoedya would tell each installment to the people with whom he shared his hut; they in turn would tell others until the thousands of political prisoners held on Buru knew the story. In the latter half of his imprisonment, Pramoedya was allowed to write the novels he had composed orally.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: This Earth of Mankind (Buru Quartet 1)
Destination: Java, Indonesia Author/guide: Pramoedya Ananta Toer Departure Time: 2000s
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