Historical Fiction

Minke is a young Javanese student of great intelligence and ambition. Living equally among the colonists and colonized of 19th-century Java, he bat...

In A Child of All Nations, the reader is immediately swept up by a story that is profoundly feminist, devastatingly anticolonialist--and full of he...

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: Be...

House of Glass is the final volume of Pramoedya Ananta Toer's acclaimed Buru Quartet, which chronicles the turbulent history of early twentieth-cen...