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"item_title" : "Daughter of Independence",
"item_author" : [" Bryce Alcock", "Wenny Achdiat "],
"item_description" : "As a child, Wenny Achdiat experienced the tumult of the Japanese occupation and the Revolution against Dutch rule. Subsequently she struggled for her own independence, first with her parents as a teenager, then with her oil executive husband during the chaotic Sukarno era, and finally with her loneliness as a single mother in Australia. Daughter of Independence interweaves Wenny's story with that of her father, the controversial writer Achdiat Karta Mihardja, whose first novel Atheis became a classic. Independence brings both joy and sorrow for Wenny and tests the strong bond between father and daughter.",
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Overview
As a child, Wenny Achdiat experienced the tumult of the Japanese occupation and the Revolution against Dutch rule. Subsequently she struggled for her own independence, first with her parents as a teenager, then with her oil executive husband during the chaotic Sukarno era, and finally with her loneliness as a single mother in Australia. Daughter of Independence interweaves Wenny's story with that of her father, the controversial writer Achdiat Karta Mihardja, whose first novel Atheis became a classic. Independence brings both joy and sorrow for Wenny and tests the strong bond between father and daughter.
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- ISBN-13: 9780987583703
- ISBN-10: 0987583700
- Publisher: Echidna-Fox Publishing
- Publish Date: June 2013
- Dimensions: 8.27 x 5.83 x 0.56 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.71 pounds
- Page Count: 266
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