| #788755 in Books | Pramoedya Ananta Toer | 1996-05-01 | 1996-05-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 3 | 7.70 x1.00 x5.00l,.83 | File type: PDF | 474 pages | Footsteps Buru Quartet||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A Disappointment|By R. Kallet|I found the third volume (and longest) of the Buru Quartet to be a disappointment. The characters and arc of the story through the first 2 volumes held my interest (as I recently visited Java for the first time). The weakness in Footsteps was its shift in emphasis towards the political without a sufficient tie-in to social-historical (and personal)|From Publishers Weekly|A vibrant portrait of a people coalescing into nationhood, this third volume of a projected tetralogy (the Buru quartet) by Indonesian novelist Pramoedya continues the story begun in Child of All Nations and This Earth of Mankind. The prot
As the world moves into the twentieth century, Minke, one of the few European-educated Javanese, optimistically starts a new life in a new town: Betawi. With his enrollment in medical school and the opportunity to meet new people, there is every reason to believe that he can leave behind the tragedies of the past. But Minke can no more escape his past than he can escape his situation as part of an oppressed people under a foreign power. As his world begins to fall apart,...
You easily download any file type for your device.Footsteps (Buru Quartet) | Pramoedya Ananta Toer. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
