Pramoedya Ananta Toer

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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1990
  • Latest Book:
    March 2020
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Full Series List in Order

Buru Quartet

1 - This Earth of Mankind (Oct-1991)
2 - Child of All Nations (Sep-1993)
3 - Footsteps (Feb-1995)
4 - House of Glass (May-1996)

Book List in Order: 10 titles

  • The Fugitive

    Indonesia under Japan's brutal occupation during World War II, is the setting for this novel. The plot is heightened by the fact that the Japanese are only a day or two away from surrendering to the Allies....

  • This Earth of Mankind

    Buru Quartet - 1

    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 ...

  • Child of All Nations

    Buru Quartet - 2

    In Child of All Nations, the reader is immediately swept up by a story that is profoundly feminist, devastatingly anticolonialist -- and full of heartbreak, suspense, love, and fury. Pramoedya immerses the reader in a world that is astonishing in its...

  • Footsteps

    Buru Quartet - 3

    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 reas...

  • House of Glass

    Buru Quartet - 4

    With House Of Glass comes the final chapter of Pramoedya's epic quartet, set in the Dutch East Indies at the turn of the century. A novel of heroism, passion, and betrayal, it provides a spectacular conclusion to a series hailed as one of the great w...

  • The Mute's Soliloquy

    From the author of the Buru Quartet and one of the greatest writers of our time comes a remarkable memoir of imprisonment and survival.

    In 1965, Pramoedya Ananta Toer was detained by Indonesian authorities and eventually exiled to the penal is...

  • The Girl from the Coast

    Pramoedya's The Girl from the Coast tells the story of a beautiful young woman from a fishing village who finds herself in an arranged marriage with a wealthy aristocrat. Forced to leave her parents and home behind, she moves to the city to become th...

  • All That Is Gone

    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 ...

  • It's Not an All Night Fair

    Now available for the first time in English, a classic from "a novelist who should get in line for the Nobel Prize" (Los Angeles Times)
    Pramoedya Ananta Toer is Indonesia's most celebrated writer, with over thirty works of fiction translated int...



  • Independence Day & Other Stories

    In these three warm and nuanced tales, Indonesia’s supreme storyteller Pramoedya Ananta Toer gives us vivid, memorable characters caught between optimism and a darker place.A disabled veteran of his country’s war of independence against the Dutch...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Pramoedya Ananta Toer has published 10 books.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Independence Day & Other Stories, was published in March 2020.

The first book by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, The Fugitive, was published in March 1990.

Yes. Pramoedya Ananta Toer has 1 series.
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