Book · 1980 · Fiction

This Earth of Mankind

Name: This Earth of Mankind
Author: Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Penguin Books (Penguin Random House) · 368 pages

★ 6.8 editorial score

Minke, a Javanese student under Dutch rule, loves the daughter of a concubine running the estate its Dutch owner cannot. Indonesia banned it for a generation and now claims it as its greatest.

Genre

Post-colonial literature

Medium

Novel

Subject

Colonialism Social class Cultural identity

Time

1980

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