pramoedya was freed from prison in 1979. but, he was still under house arrest in jakarta until 1992. during this time he released "the girl from the coast", another semi-fictional novel based on his grandmother's own experience (volumes 2 and 3 of this work were destroyed along with his library in 1965). he also wrote "nyanyi sunyi seorang bisu" (1995); "a mute's soliloquy", an autobiography based on the letters that he wrote for his daughter from imprisonment in buru but were not allowed to be sent, and "arus balik" (1995).