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Tonnerres sur Java
Mangon, dit Jan, Qu'arrivera-t-il quand Sarto et moi deviendrons grands et Seront-nous toujours ensemble?
Mangon ne répond pas. Elle reste tranquillement assise sur le carrelage vert et agite doucement son éventail de bambou pour chasser la chaleur, et peut-être aussi les moustiques et les termites; ou même, sait-on jamais, pour tenir éloignés les mauvais esprits.
Enfin Mangon répond en chuchotant comme si elle parlait à elle même:
- La vie nous est donnée pour la perdre, Petit maitre. Les amis aussi nous sont souvent donnés pour être perdus. Peut-être un jour Sarto et toi serez-vous séparés parce que les Hommes blancs et les Hommes de couleur sont si différent.
Mangon ne répond pas. Elle reste tranquillement assise sur le carrelage vert et agite doucement son éventail de bambou pour chasser la chaleur, et peut-être aussi les moustiques et les termites; ou même, sait-on jamais, pour tenir éloignés les mauvais esprits.
Enfin Mangon répond en chuchotant comme si elle parlait à elle même:
- La vie nous est donnée pour la perdre, Petit maitre. Les amis aussi nous sont souvent donnés pour être perdus. Peut-être un jour Sarto et toi serez-vous séparés parce que les Hommes blancs et les Hommes de couleur sont si différent.
224 pages, Paperback
First published January 16, 1974
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About the author
Sonja B. Pleijel
2 books1 followerSonja Berg Pleijel, born 23 September 1909 in Surabaya on Java, died in 1996, was a Swedish author, translator and musician.
Sonja Pleijel grew up in the then colony of the Dutch East Indies, where she went to Dutch girls school. His father, Allan Rock, worked as a coffee exporter in Surabaya on Java, where he eventually became a Swedish consul and married Caroline van Der Velde, a Dutch Javanese of origin. 1922 the family moved to Sweden, and she further developed her musical direction with piano studies at the Academy of Music 1929-33 and in Paris at the École Normale de Musique 1933-35. Subsequently, she worked as a concert pianist and music teacher in particular Oslo and Stockholm, before she and her husband moved their operations to Lund and Malmö.
With his international background, she felt a great need to deepen and spread the word about his childhood region and literature related to it. She also studied why literature and language in Sweden and abroad (French at the Sorbonne) and started in the 1950s to work as a translator of literature, mainly from Dutch, but also French, German and English and then also as the author of children's and youth books related to the Netherlands and Java. For the book "Atlas Moth She" publisher Raben & Sjögren award for best children's and young adult 1971st 1958-74 she also worked with literature information at the Library Service in Lund and was editor of their journal Foreign mirror. In addition, a comprehensive lectures with her specializing in foreign literature.
Pleijel was married to professor of mathematics Ake Pleijel 1939-67 and is the mother of the author Agneta Pleijel and TV producer Sonja Pleijel. Her grandfather was a painter Albert Berg and grandfather opera singer Isaac Berg. 1973 received the Swedish Authors' Fund Pleijel price for literary merit.
Sonja Pleijel grew up in the then colony of the Dutch East Indies, where she went to Dutch girls school. His father, Allan Rock, worked as a coffee exporter in Surabaya on Java, where he eventually became a Swedish consul and married Caroline van Der Velde, a Dutch Javanese of origin. 1922 the family moved to Sweden, and she further developed her musical direction with piano studies at the Academy of Music 1929-33 and in Paris at the École Normale de Musique 1933-35. Subsequently, she worked as a concert pianist and music teacher in particular Oslo and Stockholm, before she and her husband moved their operations to Lund and Malmö.
With his international background, she felt a great need to deepen and spread the word about his childhood region and literature related to it. She also studied why literature and language in Sweden and abroad (French at the Sorbonne) and started in the 1950s to work as a translator of literature, mainly from Dutch, but also French, German and English and then also as the author of children's and youth books related to the Netherlands and Java. For the book "Atlas Moth She" publisher Raben & Sjögren award for best children's and young adult 1971st 1958-74 she also worked with literature information at the Library Service in Lund and was editor of their journal Foreign mirror. In addition, a comprehensive lectures with her specializing in foreign literature.
Pleijel was married to professor of mathematics Ake Pleijel 1939-67 and is the mother of the author Agneta Pleijel and TV producer Sonja Pleijel. Her grandfather was a painter Albert Berg and grandfather opera singer Isaac Berg. 1973 received the Swedish Authors' Fund Pleijel price for literary merit.
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