The Girl from the Coast (Magill’s Literary Annual 2003)
At a glance:
- Author: Pramoedya Ananta Toer
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The early twentieth century
- Setting: Java, Indonesia
- Principal Characters: girl, , Bendoro, Mbok, Mardinah
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Girls, Wives, Mothers, Politics, Colonialism, Twentieth century, Marriage, Villages, Poverty or poor people, Asia or Asians, Women, Lower classes, Domestic work or workers, Aristocracy or aristocrats, Women’s rights, Southeast Asia, Feudalism, Nobility
- Locales: Java
Pramoedya Ananta Toer is Indonesia’s best-known writer. A nationalist and social critic, Toer was imprisoned by the government of former Indonesian president Suharto for fourteen years and his books were banned until Suharto’s fall from power in 1999. Outside Indonesia, however, translations of his books circulated around the world. His best-known work, the Buru Quartet, consists of four novels—Bumi Manusia (1981; This Earth of Mankind, 1990) Anak Semua Bangsa (1982; Child of All Nations, 1993), Jejak Langkah (1986; Footsteps, 1990), and...
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