This Earth of Mankind

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Translated by:

Max Lane

Author is from, and story is set in

Indonesia

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.