August 06, 2002
The Girl from the Coast reviewed by Salon
Salon has reviewed Pram's book, "The Girl From the Coast," a story about a poor woman from a nearly un-clivilised fisherman family who had orthodox ways, who plucked from her village to be the "practise wife" of local aristrocat.I has read this book several months ago, may be a year or so. It was the second book i had read after Para Priyayi, authored by Umar Kayam, that also has a part telling a stories about young woman who plucked by their poor family with very closed mindview, orthodox, and live among an uncivilised communities. The girl usually "given" to local aristrocat or some kind of that (in their close relative view) in hope for some better wealthy life for all of their family. The story goes, then we could say in ordinary ways that everything was sucks really. How they (aristrocat, the girl's family, and dumb communities) could do that with their only girl? How they were really think?
Yet, that was not really the last story. In recent days, some Javanese, though some communities beside them has better educated (high school and a few are graduate), still kept thinking a way of married by nobleman is the best life even the the man did very terrible things.
Posted at August 06, 2002 04:08 PM | Books
