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Sunbirds (2023), by Mirandi Riwoe

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Sunbirds
Mirandi Riwoe


Written by Lisa Hill, originally published in Personal Blog

Oct 10, 2023

Hard on the heels of The Idealist, Nicholas José’s new novel set in 1990s East Timor, (2023, see my review) comes another historical novel set in our region… Like The Idealist Mirandi Riwoe’s Sunbirds is set in the turbulent period shortly before decolonisation, but her novel is set during WW2 on the Indonesian island of Java which had been a Dutch colony for 300+ years.

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