Hijo de todos los pueblos is the continuation of the tetralogy which began with Tierra humana and that begins where that volume ended. The river of narration by sorting out the injustices and opreáion against the native population by the colonial power at that moment, in this case Holland, in a setting that also covers what happened in China before the revolution and the insurgency in the Philippines.Pramoedya Ananta Toer has been nominated on several occasions for the Nobel Prize for Literature.