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Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World

By (author) David Van Reybrouck, Translated by David Colmer, Translated by David McKay

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*Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024* *Shortlisted for the Cundill Prize* A story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the masterful and definitive account of the epic revolution that changed the course of the 20th century. 'Astounding . . . history at its best' Yuval Noah Harari 'Utterly compelling . . . astonishing' Financial Times 'Superb' Guardian On a sunny morning in August 1945, a handful of tired people raised a homemade cotton flag and announced the birth of a new nation: Indonesia. For three and a half centuries, its people had been subject to Dutch colonial rule. It would take another four years of guerrilla warfare and resistance â€“ the â€˜Revolusiâ€™ â€“ to finally win their freedom, blazing a trail that would reshape the world. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and eye-witness testimonies, David Van Reybrouckâ€™s superbly woven narrative is alive with human detail at every turn, showing Indonesiaâ€™s struggle for independence to be one of the defining dramas of the twentieth century. *A Financial Times, Evening Standard, History Today and Prospect Best Book of the Year* â€˜A magnificent fusion of oral history, sparkling analysis and historical wisdom. Revolusi has it all: a masterpieceâ€™ Sebastian Mallaby â€˜Masterly . . . compelling . . . convincingly argues that Indonesia in itself represents a global crossroads, one of the most important in modern historyâ€™ Elizabeth Pisani, The Times â€˜We learn something utterly fascinating on every single pageâ€™ Evening Standard, Books of the Year â€˜The story of [Indonesiaâ€™s] formation is delivered in a manner that genuinely seems unsurpassableâ€™ History Today, Books of the Year â€˜Revolusi briskly ushers Indonesia onto the centre stage of modern historyâ€™ Pankaj Mishra â€˜With rare narrative brilliance, Revolusi gives us a history at once vast and intimate, a history in colourâ€™ Laksmi Pamuntjak â€˜A magisterial and gripping account of events of urgent importance to us nowâ€™ Jason Burke â€˜A wonderful and important bookâ€™ Peter Frankopan â€˜Majestic and beautifully writtenâ€™ Times Literary Supplement â€˜Immensely readableâ€™ Adam Hochschild, Atlantic â€˜An electrifying narrativeâ€™ Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street Journal â€˜The definitive account of a neglected epochâ€™ Economist â€˜Masterlyâ€™ J M Coetzee