by Pramoedya Ananta Toer · La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788482643984
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«La noia de la costa» is the novel by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, published by La Magrana in paperback (288 pages, in Catalan).
In Java, in the early 1920s, a fourteen-year-old girl is forced to marry an aristocrat and leave her village to live in the city. Her path to maturity reveals the power relations between classes and sexes in a feudal society, in which women are treated as objects.
Number 135 of the Otros La Magrana collection. Translation by Anna Armengol. Work originally published as «Gadis Pantai» in 1962.
For readers of historical fiction and Indonesian narrative interested in social criticism and the female condition.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer, also nicknamed Pram, was an Indonesian novelist and writer. His works span the colonial period under Dutch rule, Indonesia's struggle for independence, its occupation by Japan during World War II, as well as the post-colonial authoritarian regimes of Sukarno and Suharto, and are infused with personal and national history.
