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Child of All Nations
Child of All Nations | Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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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 of Mankind, as he struggles to overcome the injustice all around him. Pramoedya's full literary genius is evident in the brilliant characters that populate this world: Minke's fragile Mixed-Race wife; a young Chinese revolutionary; an embattled Javanese peasant and his impoverished family; the French painter Jean Marais, to name just a few.
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And love, like every other object and situation, has its shadow. And love's shadow is called pain.

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Mandy
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"Did you enter the Indies legally or did you sneak in?" "A very good question, one that history will also put to the peoples of Europe: Oh, you peoples of Europe- and not just individuals-did you enter the Indies legally or did you sneak in? It is you yourself who must answer that question, not me."

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