This is the second in a series of four novels which emerged from the time Toer spent as a political prisoner, without trial, from 1965 to 1979 on Eastern Indone... » 

This is the second in a series of four novels which emerged from the time Toer spent as a political prisoner, without trial, from 1965 to 1979 on Eastern Indonesia's Buru Island. The novel follows the political awakening of its hero, the extraordinary Minke. «