Pramoedya the Reborn
Sunday, May 7, 2006
PRAMOEDYA was born many times. Perhaps the New Order government regarded him as dead after they tried to murder him by exiling him to Buru Island. But he was born and reborn through his four-part work that was smuggled out, sold subversively and read in secret by thousands, then millions of people around the world in 41 different languages.
He died againat least so his enemies believedunder a rain of insults and vengeance, even after he was freed
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