Gentry: Social Change in Java: the Tale of a Family

By Umar Kayam

A new edition translating Umar Kayam's "Para Priyayi, his classic novel of social change in Java: the Sastrodarsono clan's passage through almost a century of Indonesian history, from the founding parents' peasant origins "in paddy mud" to an array of talented and deft personalities seasoned by the family's passage through colonial dearth, war, the independence struggle, and the inevitable and tragic clashes of ideas to determine the nature of the newly awoken nation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0987463721
• ISBN13: 9780987463722
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Vladislav V Zhukov
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 17 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher