The Fugitive

Pramoedya Ananta Toer. Avon Books, $8.94 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-380-71496-4

Young Indonesian platoon commander Raden Hardo, his nationalist army revolt quashed by a traitorous coconspirator, returns to Java in disguise only to be betrayed to the Japanese. Written in 1947, while Pramoedya was in a Dutch forced-labor camp, ``this shattering tale is a microcosm of innumerable personal tragedies, of lives pulverized by war and conquest,'' said PW. (Oct.)

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