
By Andrea Hirata
ISBN-10: 0374246319
ISBN-13: 9780374246310
ISBN-10: 0374534446
ISBN-13: 9780374534448
ISBN-10: 1486224636
ISBN-13: 9781486224630
Published in Indonesia in 2005, The Rainbow Troops, Andrea Hirata's heavily autobiographical debut novel, offered greater than 5 million copies, shattering documents. Now it supplies to captivate audiences round the globe.
Ikal is a pupil on the poorest village college at the Indonesian island of Belitong, the place graduating from 6th grade is taken into account a striking fulfillment. His college is below consistent probability of closure. in reality, Ikal and his friends—a crew nicknamed the Rainbow Troops—face threats from each attitude: skeptical executive officers, grasping companies infrequently distinguishable from the colonialism they have changed, deepening poverty and crumbling infrastructure, and their very own low self-confidence.
But the scholars even have wish, which is available in the shape of 2 outstanding lecturers, and Ikal's schooling out and in of the study room is an uplifting one. We root for him and his acquaintances as they defy the island's robust tin mine officers. We meet his old flame, the unseen lady who sells chalk from in the back of a store monitor, whose beautiful arms seize Ikal's middle. We cheer for Lintang, the class's barefoot math genius, as he bests the scholars of the mining corporation's tuition in an educational problem. primarily, we achieve an intimate acquaintance with the customs and folks of the world's greatest Muslim society.
This is vintage storytelling within the spirit of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner: an engrossing depiction of a milieu we have now by no means encountered earlier than, bursting with allure and verve.