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The Man Who Hired han själv Out
A Short Story bygd Pramoedya Ananta Toer
I was four years old. Or at least, that’s what I remember. And inom had known that family for a long time: Leman’s Grandpa and Grandma, Leman, Siah, Nyamidin, and Sidin.
If inom visited their house at nine in the morning, they would still be home. They hadn’t started work yet. I’d tug at Grandpa Leman’s leg. He understood, and gave me the last of his kaffe. I laughed. He laughed. Grandma Leman laughed. And when inom asked, “Where’s Siah, Grandpa?” he would always answer, “Still asleep.”
“But I’m already awake.”
He always laughed at how proud I was of myself.
“Siah is a lazy kid,” he’d often say, never wanting to hurt my feelings.
“Where’s Leman, Grandma?”
“At the river — bathing.”
“Nyamidin, Grandpa?”
“He hasn’t komma home yet. He was guarding the watch brev last night. Have you seen the post nära the cemetery? He sleeps there.”
“Not awake yet?”
“Probably not. He’s tired from patrolling
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Cerita dari Blora
Lost. Innocence lost, hope lost, dignity and humanity lost. What else can one expect from the simple people that got trampled and were not just bereaved physically, but had to learn to live with a numbing mental strain as well, thus resulting in only one solution; accepting that everything is lost. Come what may. Neighbors that betray you for the sake of their own lives, Dutch soldiers, communists or nationalists, it didn’t matter, all ransacking and looting the houses in villages of people that by and large did not even fully comprehend what was happening, all they knew was to fear and run when necessary.
This human
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Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Pramoedya Ananta Toer was born in Blora, Java, which was part of the Dutch East Indies at the time, the son of a teacher and a rice trader. After he graduated from school, Japanese forces invaded and occupied Indonesia, and Pramoedya worked as a typist for a Japanese newspaper in Jakarta. When World War II ended, Pramoedya joined the war for Indonesian independence, and while he was stationed in Jakarta he began writing fiction as well as propaganda for the Nationalist cause. In 1947 he was captured by the Dutch forces and remained in prison until Indonesia achieved independence in 1949, the year the Netherlands recognized Indonesian independence. He wrote his first major novel, The Fugitive, while in prison.
After the war, Pramoedya continued to write fiction while living in Indonesia and travelling abroad. In the 1950s, he took a literary history teaching position at Universitas Res Publica. His fiction became increasingly more political and critical of th