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It's Not an All Night Fair Paperback - 2006

by Pramoedya Ananta Toer; C. W. Watson (Translator); Introduction by C. W. Watson

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 thirty works of fiction translated into over thirty languages, and the recipient of many major international awards, including the grand prize in the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize competition, Japan's highest literary honor. Narrated in the first person in Pramoedya's signature style, It's Not an All Night 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 his reticent father, the son embarks on a personal quest to find value and meaning not only in his father's life but also in his own.


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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 thirty works of fiction translated into over thirty languages, and the recipient of many major international awards, including the grand prize in the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize competition, Japan's highest literary honor. Narrated in the first person in Pramoedya's signature style, It's Not an All Night 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 his reticent father, the son embarks on a personal quest to find value and meaning not only in his father's life but also in his own.

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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.

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In fact the letter wouldn't have been so distressing, if only I hadn't previously sent a letter whose content didn't make pleasant reading.

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  • Title It's Not an All Night Fair
  • Author Pramoedya Ananta Toer; C. W. Watson (Translator); Introduction by C. W. Watson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 112
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York
  • Date 2006-10-01
  • Features Annotated, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780143037026 / 0143037021
  • Weight 0.21 lbs (0.10 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.82 x 5.1 x 0.32 in (19.86 x 12.95 x 0.81 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Fathers and sons
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006044800
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Multicultural Review, 05/01/2007, Page 13

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.
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