Synopsis: Kidnapped from Java, along with her older cousin, five year-old Mirah is taken to the Banda islands where she spends the rest of her life on a nutmeg plantation. She is first taken in as a servant by the Dutch estate owner, then works as a contract nutmeg picker and finally, when his wife leaves him, she is forced to become the man's concubine with whom she bears two children. Mirah lives out her life-through the Dutch colonial era, the Japanese Occupation, the Revolution and modern days-with no say in what befalls her. The fate of her daughter, Lili, taken away to be a "comfort...