Authors: Pramoedya Toer, Willem Samuels
ISBN-13: 9781401366636, ISBN-10: 1401366635
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Hyperion
Date Published: January 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Pramoedya Ananta Toer is the author of more than thirty books, including The Buru Quartet and The Mute's Soliloquy.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer's transcendent novels have become part of the world literary canon, but it is his short fiction that originally made him famous. The first full-size collection of his short stories to appear in English, All That Is Gone draws from the author's own experiences in Indonesia to depict characters trying to make sense of a war-torn culture haunted by colonialism, among them an eight-year-old girl soon to be married off by her parents for money and an idealistic young soldier who witnesses the savage beating of a man accused of being a spy. Though violence and brutality pervade these tales, there is present throughout a profound sense of compassionan extraordinary combination of despair and hope that gives All That Is Gone rare power and beauty.
A writer of wisdom, humanity, and great storytelling ability.
Preface | ||
All that is Gone | 1 | |
Inem | 31 | |
In Twilight Born | 49 | |
Circumcision | 73 | |
Revenge | 85 | |
Independence Day | 115 | |
Acceptance | 139 | |
The Rewards of Marriage | 211 | |
Translator's Note | 255 |