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Title: A must read for every Indonesian
Review: I'm from the same village as Mr. Toer, in fact, I was born only a mile away from his family home in Blora. My uncle went to school with him, my mom went to school with his sister and I went to school with his nephew. Since his exile, his family disowned him and I only heard bad things about him. But being in the US, I'm able to get access to the ban books in Indonesia and have been rewarded from reading his books. This book is a start of an "anti-christ" series that exposes our bad sides honestly. This, and the following books, clearly narrates the dutch rule in the late 1800 and early 1900 that is used in the exact same manner by Suharto during his rule (i.e. oppression). It also brings out our (esp. Javanese) bad character, submissiveness, in a painful but awakening way. So, for my fellow Indonesians, read this book as an instrospect! You will be stressed out for awhile but enlightment is on its way.
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