Literary places in Surabaya

This Earth of Mankind

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Colonial Surabaya at the turn of the twentieth century, the largest port of the Dutch East Indies and a city ruled by a strict ladder of race and law. A gifted Javanese student at the elite Dutch H.B.S. is pulled south to Wonokromo, into the household of a formidable concubine who runs a European farm, and finally into the colonial courts. The map runs from the old town on the Kalimas down through Wonokromo to the sugar country of East Java.

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