02335nam a2200265 i 4500 OSt 20231017143705.0 231003s2022 si o g 000 0 eng d 9789814914178 RM95.95 paperback PPAK eng PPAK rda 23 959.803 959.803 LAN G Lane, Max 1951- author. Indonesia Out of Exile : How Pramoedya's Buru Quartet Killed a Dictatorship / Max Lane Singapore : Penguin Random House SEA Pte Ltd, 2022 xv, 223 pages : illustrations, photograph ; 24 cm rdacontent text rdamedia unmediated rdacarrier volume "In 1981, a new company, Hasta Mitra, founded by three men just released from over a decade in prison, published a novel written in a prison camp by Pramoedya Ananta Toer. The novel was This Earth of Mankind. It told the story of the early gestation of the Indonesian national awakening. The dictatorship eventually banned it after several months of tactical struggle by the three men, Pramoedya himself and the fighters of Hasta Mitra, Joeoef Isak and Hasyim Rachman. In defiance of the dictatorship, they went on to publish the three sequels to This Earth of Mankind, each time followed by another battle and then a ban. This book tells of these men's struggle, their arrests and imprisonment-the story of the writing of Pramoedya's novels in Buru Island prison camp. They return from exile to a different Indonesia, its radical past suppressed and its people terrorised. Pramoedya's epic novels starting with This Earth of Mankind then explodes onto the scene. Set in a time when even the idea of Indonesia had not yet formed, the book tells an inspiring creation story. The story of that early struggle and of the amazing effort to publish Pramoedya's novels in the face of repression inspired a new generation of youth who succeeded in breaking the dictatorship. Today, a new generation is being inspired by those same books. So what comes next?"-- Provided by publisher. Toer, Pramoedya Ananta, 1925-2006. Buru quartet Influence Dictatorship Indonesia History 20th century. Indonesia Politics and government 1966-1988 ddc B 193277 193277 0 0 PPAK G 2023-11-09 0 959.803 LAN A01796875 2023-11-09 12:18:29 B 0 0 SP G 2023-11-09 0 959.803 LAN A01796876 2023-11-09 12:18:29 B 0 0 KM G 2023-11-09 0 959.803 LAN A01796877 2023-11-09 12:18:29 B