Word: indonesianness
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...Southeast Asia's most vibrant democracy, the Obama Administration sees an opportunity to build a wider relationship while riding the President's popularity in the country, where he spent some of his childhood years. This strategy would involve not just the government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono but the Indonesian people through greater interaction among students, academics and opinion leaders in the two nations...
...Italian restaurant, brunch at a place with Australian-inspired cuisine, dinner in a Japanese restaurant, breakfast with Italian coffee and panini, tea with scones, clotted cream and jam, and in the evening tapas and papas bravas? It seems that the writer has no interest in finding out that Indonesian food also exists and is very, very good. Jaime Alcántara, LLÍBER, SPAIN...
...There are three narratives: of Adam, a child rescued from an Indonesian orphanage by a Dutch painter, Karl; of Adam's brother, Johan, separated from Adam when a rich Malaysian couple adopted him from the same orphanage and took him to Kuala Lumpur; and of Margaret, a Jakarta-based American anthropologist. It is Margaret that the 16-year-old Adam seeks out when Karl is arrested in a drive to forcibly repatriate the Dutch...
...heft in this new work. The tender relationship of the brothers before they are separated, and their sundering, is told in a timed-release fashion, reaching an unbearably moving climax. If there is a sag in the middle of the novel brought about by a too expository account of Indonesian politics, it is more than redeemed by the way Aw debunks every expectation one has of the postcolonial novel: questions of identity and belonging, of native and foreigner, of affiliations of birth and adoption. This is a book full of immense intelligence and empathy...
...have dinner in an Italian restaurant, brunch at a place with Australian cuisine, another dinner in a Japanese restaurant, breakfast with Italian coffee and a panini, tea with scones, and finally tapas and papas bravas [April 27]. It seems that the author does not want to know that Indonesian or Balinese food also exists and is very, very good. Jaime Alcántara, Lliber, Spain