Full name: The Mute's Soliloquy: A Memoir

Author: Pramoedya Ananta Toer Year: 1988 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780140289046 9780786864164 0140289046 0786864168

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. Similar books: Dancing Fish and Ammonites by Penelope Lively Her Last Death by Susanna Sonnenberg All That Is Bitter & Sweet by Ashley Judd Moose by Stephanie Klein Lost In Place by Mark Salzman Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel Borrowed Finery by Paula Fox Born with Teeth by Kate Mulgrew The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch Slow Love by Dominique Browning Circling My Mother by Mary Gordon Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick Townie by Andre Dubus Driving with Dead People by Monica Holloway Sky of Stone by Homer Hickam Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand How Not to Die by Michael Greger The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel A. van der Kolk The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank