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Oct 1998. 223pp. Paperback, 215 x 138 mm. ISBN 0 9585805 0 2.
RRP $aud 20.95 |
| When Maryati leaves her village in Central Java to live in Melbourne
with her Australian husband Trevor, she suffers the intense pain of
separation from her baby son. She soon realises that Trevor would
never be able to accept that his innocent Maryati already had a son
from an earlier casual liaison. In Melbourne, Eni, also from Indonesia, becomes Maryati's personal support system. Eni is so successful, so sophisticated, fitting comfortably into the professional community surrounding her lover, Alex and his brother, Simon. Their friendship matures as their circumstances change. Maryati experiences personal breakdown as her marriage collapses under the weight of Trevor's intransigence. Reunion with her son is the start of her recovery, a full recovery in which she becomes the sophisticated, successful woman of her village. The roles are reversed in the women's friendship as Eni's relationship with Alex leads to her becoming victim to an act of sorcery. It is only through Maryati that she is rescued from the satanic garden into which she has been cast. Journeys Through Shadows carries all the emotional and cultural interplay that has become Dewi Anggraeni's trademark. |
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