 Atheis was published in 1949 by Balai Pustaka , which had become the state publisher of independent Indonesia . A second printing followed three years later , with a cover by Basuki Resobowo . A third printing , which had several revisions to improve the flow of the story , was published in 1958 . As of 2009 , Atheis has been reprinted thirty @-@ three times . By 1970 , Atheis had been printed in Malaysian three times . In 1972 , the novel was translated by R. J. Macguire into English as part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works project . 
