Never the Twain review

       I've mentioned the Indonesian-literature promoting Lontar Foundation repeatedly here over the years, and was especially excited to hear about their new Modern Library of Indonesia-series -- see, for example, the Jakarta Globe article, or this mention, which also lists the first ten titles in the series. (Inconveniently, the official Lontar Foundation site is still being overhauled and not readily accessible at this time.)
       Curious though I have long been about the Lontar publications, I never managed to get my hands on any -- until last week, when I came across a copy of the first title in the Modern Library of Indonesia-series, Abdoel Moeis' 1928 classic, Never the Twain (and, yes, my review of that is the most recent addition to the complete review -- only the second Indonesian-language title covered here (and the other one isn't by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, either -- what are the odds ?)).
       I do hope to be able to cover more of these titles -- Indonesian fiction deserves considerably more attention than it has gotten.

       [That was a banner book-buying day when I found this, by the way: among the other finds: a copy of the out-of-print The Sharks by Jens Bjørneboe (Moment of Freedom, etc.); see also the Norvik publicity page.]