num_pages: 352
description: 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.
language: English
title: Child of All Nations
titlecomplete: Child of All Nations (Buru Quartet, #2)
characters: Nyai Ontosoroh, Khouw Ah Soe, Minke
genres: Classics, Historical, Roman, Asia, Novels, Indonesian Literature, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 7048
places: Indonesia
series: Tetralogi Buru
publisher: Penguin Books