{"product_id":"all-that-is-gone-hardcover-2","title":"All That Is Gone - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePramoedya Ananta Toer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of the world's most acclaimed writers comes a collection of beautiful short stories based on the author's childhood.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Pramoedya Ananta Toer is a major figure in world literature, listed in John Major's rewrite of the famous \u003ci\u003eLifetime Reading Plan\u003c\/i\u003e among the likes of James Baldwin, Bertolt Brecht, Graham Greene, and John Steinbeck as one of 100 authors everyone should read. A constant contender for the Nobel Prize, he recently won one of France's highest literary awards and has won the highest award in Asian letters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eAll That Is Gone\u003c\/i\u003e, Pramoedya's semiautobiographical stories deal with life's major themes: birth and death, sexual knowledge and love, compassion and revenge. Some stories are written from a child's point of view, others from that of an adult. But all are written in a style that quickly wraps the reader up in this master storyteller's narrative web. This is the first time Pramoedya's short fiction has been widely available to the English reading public; its publication represents a significant addition to the canon of world literature in translation.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePramoedya Ananta Toer\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of more than thirty books, including \u003cem\u003eThe Fugitive\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Mute's Soliloquy\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Girl from the Coast\u003c\/em\u003e, and is published in more than thirty countries. He has been called \"Indonesia's Albert Camus\" (\u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e). The \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e compared him to James Baldwin and Dashiell Hammett. And he is listed in the updated edition of the classic \u003cem\u003eLifetime Reading Plan\u003c\/em\u003e among the likes of Bertolt Brecht, Graham Greene, and John Steinbeck as one of 100 authors everyone should read. He has been profiled in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, and other major publications around the world. He is the recipient of numerous international literary awards (such as France's Chevalier award and the highest award in Asian letters, the Magsaysay award) and freedom-of-speech awards (such as the PEN Freedom-to-Write award and the Hellman-Hammett award). He lives outside Jakarta.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 255\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.95 x 8.78 x 5.81 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 12, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47466943512797,"sku":"9781401366636","price":43.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/Q2ZSMDdpdW4yOWJqU1BhMVJYZDV0Zz09_96e5b767-484a-4c76-90e4-8d83ebc9b882.webp?v=1771676412","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/all-that-is-gone-hardcover-2","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}