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Jun 02, 2017
Kelly
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3 1/2 stars
This was a pretty good book. I can't say that I greatly enjoyed reading it—it wasn't a page-turner or anything—but I can see its literary merit and I'm not going to challenge the conventional wisdom that this is one of Indonesia's great literary classics.
The big problem for me was the central "romance," which I found unbelievable, exploitative, and frankly horrifying. In the interest of avoiding spoilers, that's as much as I'll say here, but I've written about it in (probably excessiv ...more
This was a pretty good book. I can't say that I greatly enjoyed reading it—it wasn't a page-turner or anything—but I can see its literary merit and I'm not going to challenge the conventional wisdom that this is one of Indonesia's great literary classics.
The big problem for me was the central "romance," which I found unbelievable, exploitative, and frankly horrifying. In the interest of avoiding spoilers, that's as much as I'll say here, but I've written about it in (probably excessiv ...more
Jan 22, 2021
Vanessa van den Boogaard
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