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The gripping life story of a Javanese woman who tries to shape her life in the rapidly changing colony of the Dutch East Indies. Winner of the Book Trade Prize 2020. Java, 1850. Isah grows up in the kraton, the royal residence in Djokja. Her course in life seems to be fixed. But this headstrong young woman manages to escape traditional class society. She became the housekeeper and mistress of a Dutch officer and gave him two daughters. When he leaves them, she must make great sacrifices to see her children grow up. In the end Isah realises that she cannot and will not deny her own origins.

Author: Didi Michielsen
Hardcover