num_pages: 367
description: 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.
language: English
title: This Earth of Mankind
titlecomplete: This Earth of Mankind (Buru Quartet, #1)
characters: Nyai Ontosoroh, Annelies, Minke
genres: Historical, Literature, Asian Literature, Classics, Novels, Asia, Indonesian Literature, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 19326
places: Indonesia
series: Tetralogi Buru
publisher: Penguin Books