Buru Quartet
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The Buru Quartet is a literary
tetralogy
written by Indonesian author Pramoedya Ananta Toer
. It is composed of the novels This Earth of Mankind
, Child of All Nations
, Footsteps, and House of Glass.
Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
tetralogy
Tetralogy
A tetralogy is a compound work that is made up of four distinct works, just as a trilogy is made up of three works....
written by Indonesian author Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Pramoedya Ananta Toer was an Indonesian author of novels, short stories, essays, polemic and histories of his homeland and its people...
. It is composed of the novels This Earth of Mankind
This Earth of Mankind
This Earth of Mankind is the first book in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's epic quartet called Buru Quartet, first published by Hasta Mitra in 1980. The story is set at the end of the Dutch colonial rule and was written while Pramoedya was imprisoned on the political island prison of Buru in eastern...
, Child of All Nations
Child of All Nations
Child of All Nations is the second book in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's epic quartet called Buru Quartet, first published by Hasta Mitra in 1980. Child of All Nations continues the story of the lives of the main character, Minke, and his mother in law, Nyai Ontosoroh...
, Footsteps, and House of Glass.
External links
- Buru Quartet review by the Asian Review of Books