It’s Not An All Night Fair
Author: Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Narrated in the first person in Pramoedya’s signature style, It’s Not an All Night Fair (Bukan Pasar Malam) tells the deeply affecting story of a son returning home to central Java to confront the fact of his father’s death. Struggling to understand his reticent father, the son embarks on a personal quest to find value and meaning not only in his father’s life but also in his own.
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Narrated in the first person in Pramoedya’s signature style, It’s Not an All Night Fair (Bukan Pasar Malam) tells the deeply affecting story of a son returning home to central Java to confront the fact of his father’s death. Struggling to understand his reticent father, the son embarks on a personal quest to find value and meaning not only in his father’s life but also in his own.
Published by Penguin
Paperback
2006
ISBN: 9780143037026
Translated by C.W. Watson
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