The Dancer
The Dancer, a trilogy of novels, recounts the tumultuous days of Indonesia in the mid 1960s. In luscious descriptive language, author Ahmad Tohari describes a village community struggling to adapt to a rapidly changing world. The Dancer highlights the lives of Srintil, a dancer, and Rasus, a bewildered young man torn between tradition and political progress. Through their separate experiences, both learn the concepts of shame and sin: Rasus after he leaves their home village and journeys into the wider world and Srintil when the outside world finally comes crashing into her remote village. The Dancer gives readers a ground-level view of the political turmoil leading up to and following the abortive coup in 1965.
| The Lontar Foundation, Oct. 5, 2015, 478 pages | ||||
| Languages: | English | |||
| Translators: | René T. A. Lysloff | |||
| ISBNs: | 9789881554178 (EBOOK), 9786029144215 (PRINT) | |||
| Keywords: | Lontar, Modern Library of Indonesia, political, history, Java, society | |||
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