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“... This Earth of Mankind. Alan Sillitoe’s new novel is about 50-year-old Britons feeling rootless. Pramoedya AnantaToer is concerned with young people of the Dutch East Indies in the 1890s, almost choked with different roots – religions, races, cultures, classes – all sprouting wildly. The resemblances struck me ...”

“... to Proust. Our favourite class was a joint seminar on the fiction of Indonesia’s great writer Pramoedya AnantaToer, who was then still in one of Suharto’s gulags. Careful, close reading of fiction with a group of excellent students was quite new to me. Thanks to Jim, I began to think about how I could use my ...”

“... late as 1978 there were still tens of thousands, including the country’s leading writer Pramoedya AnantaToer, in Indonesia’s gulag; executions of Communist leaders who had been on death row for more than two decades continued into the late Eighties.) The removal of the radical-populist Sukarno, a bugaboo ...”