"The World" is a novel by the famous Indonesian writer Pramdiya Ananda Toole, and it is also the first part of his world-famous masterpiece "Buru Island Tetralogy". The story takes the love story of a pair of young Indonesians as the main line and describes the customs and customs of Indonesia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It highlights the sharp contradictions between the Dutch colonists and the indigenous Indonesian residents at that time through various conflicts between the Dutch-Indian mixed-race family Aunt Ventosoro's family. The novel has many characters, a grand structure, rich national characteristics of the times, and is highly readable.