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    Shelfari edited the description of It's Not an All Night Fair Saturday, August 1 2009.

    • Now available for the first time in English, a classic from "a novelist who should get in line for the Nobel Prize" ( Los Angeles Times ) Pramoedya Ananta Toer is Indonesia’s most celebrated writer, with over thirty works of fiction translated into over thirty languages, and the recipient of many major international awards, including the grand prize in the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize competition, Japan’s highest literary honor. Narrated in the first person in Pramoedya’s signature style, It’s Not an All Night Fair tells the deeply affecting story of a son returning home to central Java to confront the fact of his father’s death. Struggling to understand his reticent father, the son embarks on a personal quest to find value and meaning not only in his father’s life but also in his own.

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    Shelfari edited the contributors of It's Not an All Night Fair Wednesday, July 29 2009.

    • Added a contributor: Pramoedya Ananta Toer: (Primary Author)
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    Shelfari edited the first sentence of It's Not an All Night Fair Friday, July 17 2009.

    • In fact the letter wouldn't have been so distressing, if only I hadn't previously sent a letter whose content didn't make pleasant reading.
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