Which influential novella by Hella S. Haasse, published in 1948, explores the fractured childhood friendship between a Dutch planter's son and a Sundanese boy?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B. Oeroeg, set against the backdrop of changing colonial realities in the Dutch East Indies
- Step 1: Oeroeg was published as the national Book Week Gift (Boekenweekgeschenk) in 1948. Step 2. It symbolizes the inevitable estrangement between Dutch colonizers and Indonesian independence through the parting paths of two boyhood companions. Answer: Oeroeg, set against the backdrop of changing colonial realities in the Dutch East Indies. Why not the others: Heren van de thee was published in 1992; Het woud der verwachting is about Charles d'Orléans; De ontdekking van de hemel is by Mulisch.
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