by Dido Michielsen · Hollands Diep · tapa dura · ISBN 9789048857227
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«Lichter dan ik» is the historical novel by Dido Michielsen, published by Hollands Diep in hardback (267 pages, in Dutch).
In 1850s Java, Isah grows up in the Kraton, the closed community of the sultan's palace. She flees that fate and becomes housekeeper and lover of a Dutch officer, with whom she has two daughters. When he abandons them, she will make great sacrifices to raise them in a changing colony, without being able to renounce her Javanese roots.
Work published in 2020, the year it won the Boekhandelsprijs and was nominated for the Libris Literatuurprijs.
Aimed at readers of historical fiction about colonial Indonesia, focused on motherhood and mixed-race identity.
