From: Pacific Affairs | Date: September 22, 1994| Author: Hellwig, Tineke | COPYRIGHT 1994 University of British Columbia. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

THIS BOOK is Jitske Mulder's autobiographical account of her marriage to Hersri Setiawan. The pen-name she has chosen is full of significance: Ruth after the biblical woman who left her country, and Havelaar after Multatuli's protagonist Max Havelaar. Jitske Mulder (1942-1989) grew up in the Netherlands and adopted Indonesia as her new home country after she had met and married Hersri in 1980. At the time Hersri had just been released from the penal camp of Buru Island where he had b...