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This Earth of Mankind (Buru Quartet)

by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

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.

Child of All Nations (Buru Quartet)

by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

The second book in the epic quartet of novels known to some as the Buru Tetralogy. This vivid story of awakening follows the main character from This Earth of Mankind as he struggles to overcome the omnipresent injustices in the Dutch East Indies of the 1890s.

The ten thousand things: A novel

by Maria Dermou?t

An underground favorite, The Ten Thousand Things tells the story of Felicia, who, pregnant and alone, returns from Holland to the Indonesian islands where she was born and where her powerful grandmother still lives. Felicia's homecoming brings her close to an uncanny and dangerous world, full of mystery and violence, where objects tell tales, the dead come and go, and the past is as potent as the present.

Indonesian-English English-Indonesian Dictionary (Hippocrene Practical Dictionary)

Indonesian-English English-Indonesian Dictionary (Hippocrene Practical Dictionary)

by Helen L. Johnson, Rossall J. Johnson

Ideal for the foreign executive Extensive listings of words and phrases that appear in everyday business Concise and easy to follow Alphabetical listings according to prefix of root word A rare and valuable resource

Teach Yourself Indonesian Complete Course (Teach Yourself)

Teach Yourself Indonesian Complete Course (Teach Yourself)

by John B. Kwee

Borobudur

by Louis Frederic

When archeologists working under Stamford Raffles, the British colonialist and founder of Singapore, stumbled on the overgrown monument of Borobudur in the Javanese jungle in the late 19th century, they uncovered an ancient marvel that has astounded archeologists ever since. A cosmos in stone, a visual scripture of Buddhism with 1,460 exquisite carved reliefs, a pilgrimage site and an enormous mandala,... (more)