Setelah Majapahit runtuh pada 1527, Jawa kacau balau dan bermandi darah. Kekuasaan tak berpusat, tersebar praktis di seluruh kadipaten, kabupaten, bahkan desa. Perang terus menerus menjadi untuk memperebutkan penguasa tunggal. Permata-permata kesenian, baik di bidang sastra, musik, dan arsitektur tidak lagi di temukan. Selama hampir satu abadjawa dikungkung oleh pemerintahan teror (schrikbewin…
Cerita dari Digul merupakan kumpulan tulisan karya para eka-Digulis. Mereka pernah dibuang sebagai tahanan politik semasa pemerintahan kolonial hindia-belanda. Berbagai cerita itu, yang sungguh-sungguh terjadi, mengisahkan suka-duka mereka dalam mempertahankan hidup di tanah buangan Digul, Papua Barat. Getir dan mengharukan.
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 the strength to embrace his world.
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 vividness: the cultural whirlpool that was the Dutch East Indies of the 1890s. A story of awakening, it follows Minke, the main character of This E…
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 reason to believe that he can leave behind the tragedies of the past. But Minke can no more escape his past than he can escape his situation as part of…