Pramoedya, Books and Film

My writings have been translated into 36 languages, but I have never been appreciated in Indonesia. (Prams comment in an interview with Andre Vltchek & Rossie Indira, 2003)

February 7, 2006

A TRANSLATED book from a faraway country was published in Moscow in 1961. With a background color of yellow, the picture on the cover displayed two people in a tense situation. A bare-footed young man with a clenched fist was standing alert. In front of him, stood a man wearing a hat, his right hand holding a briefcase and his left hand pointing a cane as if to threaten the young man. Five rows of Russian words were printed as the title of the bo

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