num_pages: 255
description: 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Ananta Toer’s transcendent novels have become part of the world literary canon, but it is his short fiction that originally made him famous.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 compassion—an extraordinary combination of despair and hope that gives All That Is Gone rare power and beauty.
language: English
title: All That is Gone
titlecomplete: All That is Gone
genres: Short Stories, Fiction, Asia, Historical Fiction, Indonesian Literature, Asian Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 816
places: Indonesia
awards: awardedAt: -568051200000
name: Hadiah Sastra Nasional BMKN
category: Cerita Pendek
publisher: Penguin Books