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Written by a white Dutch woman who was born and lived foe decades in Indonesia during the Dutch colonial era, until 1933. She published this book in 1955, aged 63. It is a beautiful evocation of the island of Ambon. I googlemapped Ambon in the Moluccas: an extraordinarly little island, with two bays (almost lagoons), an outer and an inner, and these two bays structure the spatial experiences of the protagonists.
The more or less main character is Felicia, an elder woman who looks back on her life ...more
The more or less main character is Felicia, an elder woman who looks back on her life ...more
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