The Mute's Soliloquy: A Memoir - Rilegato

Toer, Pramoedya A

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ISBN 10: 0786864168 ISBN 13: 9780786864164

Casa editrice: Hachette Books, 1999

Riassunto

The Nobel Prize candidate for literature who wrote The Buru Quartet offers a literary memoir that captures the struggles he and his fellow inmates endured while living as political prisoners of Indonesia on the island of Buru. 25,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Pramoedya Ananta Toer is the author of more than thirty books, including The Fugitive, The Mute's Soliloquy, and The Girl from the Coast, and is published in more than thirty countries. He has been called "Indonesia's Albert Camus" (San Francisco Chronicle). The Los Angeles Times compared him to James Baldwin and Dashiell Hammett. And he is listed in the updated edition of the classic Lifetime Reading Plan among the likes of Bertolt Brecht, Graham Greene, and John Steinbeck as one of 100 authors everyone should read. He has been profiled in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and other major publications around the world. He is the recipient of numerous international literary awards (such as France's Chevalier award and the highest award in Asian letters, the Magsaysay award) and freedom-of-speech awards (such as the PEN Freedom-to-Write award and the Hellman-Hammett award). He lives outside Jakarta.

Product Description:

Pramoedya Ananta Toer is frequently cited as a candidate for the Nobel Prize for literature. His monumental four-part epic, The Buru Quartet, was published around the world to staggering reviews -- yet is forbidden reading in his native Indonesia. Recorded during more than fourteen years of imprisonment without trial, The Mute's Soliloquy, Pramoedya's first work of non-fiction to be published abroad, is a testament to the durability of the human spirit.In 1965 Pramoedya and 20,000 other political prisoners were exiled to a harsh prison on the barren island of Buru. He was only occasionally allowed to write, and much of his work was destroyed by prison officials. In the surviving writings that make up The Mute's Soliloquy, Pramoedya shifts from advice to his children and stories about his own childhood to accounts of the lives of his fellow prisoners and the cruelties they endured. A deeply moving and courageous book, The Mute's Soliloquy stands beside The Gulag Archipelago and Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, as a brilliant and compelling account of modern-day political persecution that has resonance far beyond its particular time and place.

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• Editore: Hachette Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0786864168
• ISBN 13: 9780786864164
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 400