Footsteps

Description

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 an oppressed people under a foreign power. As his world begins to fall apart, Minke draws a small but fervent group around him to fight back against colonial exploitation. During the struggle, Minke finds love, friendship, and betrayal–with tragic consequences. And he goes from wanting to understand his world to wanting to change it. Pramoedya’s full literary genius is again evident in the remarkable characters that populate the novel–and in his depiction of a people’s painful emergence from colonial domination and the shackles of tradition.
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Pramoedya Ananta Toer,Max Lane (Translator),Max Lane (Introduction by)
Published: 05/01/1996
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780140256345
Pages: 480
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 1.08″ H x 7.79″ L x 5.06″ W

About the Author
Pramoedya Ananta Toer, born on the island of Java in 1925, was imprisoned first by the Dutch, then by the Indonesian government as a political prisoner. He received the PEN Freedom to Write Award and the Ramon Magsaysay Award.