An Indo Survives Dutch East Indies Life, Death and Indonesia’s Birth in Still I Dream of Java
May 15th, 2018
As Tante Oty tells it, some forty-eight hours had passed and still Oma Leimena’s coffin stood open in the sitting room. A hint of decay cloyed the moist air. Aware of the risk, Oty’s mother, Johanna Margaretha, refused to close the lid on her mother-in-law’s death. That finality would let go Oma Leimena’s body forever […]
