Never the Twain

Abdoel Moeis

Original title: Salah asuhan

first published 1967 Balai Pustaka, 2009 239 pages

Indonesian cultural heritage

The novel Salah Asuhan, translated here as Never the Twain, is among the most popular works of modern Indonesian fiction. First published in 1928, the book is still in print today. Hanafi, the novel's protagonist, is madly in love with Corrie du Bussee, a beautiful Eurasian, though he has long been betrothed, to his cousin, Rapiah. Which woman should Hanafi marry: Corrie, the feisty, liberated Western woman, or the s...

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Robin Susanto 1 printing we hold · 2010 · Lontar Foundation

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Never the Twain paperback · 2010 · Lontar Foundation · 240 pages · 9789798083549
Salah asuhan edition · 2009 · Balai Pustaka · 239 pages

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