Mute's Soliloquy: A Memoir

Title: Mute's Soliloquy: A Memoir
Author: Pramoedya Ananta Toer
ISBN: 9780140289046
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2005
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition Thus
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Memoir: 1691582
Section: Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
Publisher Description: In 1965, Pramoedya Ananta Toer was detained by Indonesian authorities and eventually exiled to the penal island of Buru. Without a formal accusation or trial, the onetime national hero was imprisoned on Buru for eleven years. He survived under brutal conditions, somehow managing to produce his masterwork, the four novels of the Buru Quartet, as well as the remarkable journal entries, essays, and Letters that comprise this moving memoir.

Reminiscent of the work of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Mute's Soliloquy is a harrowing portrait of a penal colony and a heartbreaking remembrance of life before it. With a resonance far beyond its particular time and place, it is Pramoedya's crowning achievement -- a passionate tribute to the freedom of the mind and a celebration of the human spirit.