It's Not an All Night Fair

Synopsis: 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 thir ty works of fiction translated into over thirty languages, and the recipien t of many major international awards, including the grand prize in the Fuku oka Asian Culture Prize competition, Japan's highest literary honor. Narrat ed in the first person in Pramoedya's signature style, It's Not an All Nigh t 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 h is reticent father, the son embarks on a personal quest to find value and m eaning not only in his father's life but also in his own. 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.

Product Info

ISBN: 0143037021

ISBN-13: 9780143037026

Publisher: Penguin Books

Year: 2006

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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