In one work by this author, a marriage ceremony is held with the groom absent and represented by a dagger.  
In one work by this author, a marriage ceremony is held with the groom absent and represented by a dagger.  That work also sees Mbok relate how her unborn child was killed when she was kicked by a foreman and the title character marry the aristocratic Bendoro.  This author of the memoir The Mute's Soliloquy and the aforementioned The Girl from the Coast also wrote a novel in which social and legal challenges destroy the interracial marriage between the mixed-blood daughter of a concubine, Annelies, and her native husband Minke.  His most famous series consists of House of Glass, Footsteps, Child of All Nations, and This Earth of Mankind.  FTP, name this author of the Buru Quartet, a novelist from Indonesia.
In one work by this author, a marriage ceremony is held with the groom absent and represented by a dagger.  
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