Telling Lives, Telling History. Autobiography and Historical Imagination in Modern Indonesia.
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1995. Stock ID #179024 "These two childhood memoirs (Aku dan Toba by P. Pospos and Semasa Kecil di Kampung by Muhamad Radjab), superbly rendered and appearing in English for the first time, provide unique windows into the Sumatran past and the early twentieth-century history of Southeast Asia. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179024.
Maps, frontispiece, xiii + 333pp, index, glossary, a very good paperback copy.
Originally published soon after the Indonesian Revolution liberated the island chain from Dutch control, these insightful narratives recall the authors' boyhoods in rural Toba Batak and Minangkabau villages." (Publisher's description).
Price: $35.00 AU