Woman Outside the Norm

April 23, 2013

She is almost forgotten. Some note her birth as April 21, others as April 20. And like Kartini, they say, her writing is like a journal of the hopes and disillusionments of Indonesian women who rebel and are constrained. But she is not Kartini. Her stories are more complex, more intimate, more open, and with a background that is wider than the letters in Door Duisternis tot Licht (From Darkness to Light, translated into English as Letters from a

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