by Pramoedya Ananta Toer · Destino · tapa dura · ISBN 9788423333974
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«La joven de la costa» is the novel by Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer, published by Destino in hardback (280 pages, in Spanish).
A teenager from a fishing village in Java becomes the wife of an aristocrat from the city. Separated from her surroundings and educated to obey, she finds that her husband treats her as an object of his property; after the failure of the marriage, she must rebuild her life and, in old age, find the meaning of what she has lived through with her grandson.
Translation by Gloria Méndez; edition number 949 of the Áncora y Delfín collection. The original novel, Gadis Pantai, was published in 1962.
Recommended for readers of literary and contemporary fiction with an interest in Indonesian narrative, social class and the female condition.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer, also nicknamed Pram, was an Indonesian novelist and writer. His works span the colonial period under Dutch rule, Indonesia's struggle for independence, its occupation by Japan during World War II, as well as the post-colonial authoritarian regimes of Sukarno and Suharto, and are infused with personal and national history.
