Pramoedya’s The Girl from the Coast tells the story of a beautiful young woman from a fishing village who finds herself in an arranged marriage with a wealthy aristocrat. Forced to leave her parents and home behind, she moves to the city to become the ‘lady’ of her husband’s house. Pramoedya’s breathtaking literary skill is evident in every word of this book, one of his classic works of fiction made especially poignant because it is based on the life of his own grandmother.
Author Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Translator Willem Samuels
Format Paperback, English
Page(s) 288
ISBN/ISBN13 0786887087/9780786887088
Published Date Oct 08, 2003
Publisher Hyperion
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Translator Willem Samuels
Format Paperback, English
Page(s) 288
ISBN/ISBN13 0786887087/9780786887088
Published Date Oct 08, 2003
Publisher Hyperion
View on Goodreads | Google Books
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An invaluable cultural titan, one cannot imagine an Indonesia deprived of Toer’s brutal honesty. The Girl From The Coast is one of Indonesia’s hidden gems.
— Gaby Rusli in The Girl from The Coast (1987) by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, a Peasant Girl Turned an Aristocratic Wife (Asia Media, Apr 28, 2022)
— Gaby Rusli in The Girl from The Coast (1987) by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, a Peasant Girl Turned an Aristocratic Wife (Asia Media, Apr 28, 2022)
Perhaps more than any other writer, Pramoedya has brought the brutality of the Indonesian century -- colonial exploitation, revolution, the purges and exile of intellectuals -- to the world's attention.
— Nell Freudenberger in A Practice Wife’s Story (New York Times, Aug 11, 2002)
— Nell Freudenberger in A Practice Wife’s Story (New York Times, Aug 11, 2002)
