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Bunga Roos Dari Cikembang (1975 Film)
Boenga Roos dari Tjikembang may refer to: * ''Boenga Roos dari Tjikembang'' (novel), a novel by Indonesian author Kwee Tek Hoay * ''Boenga Roos dari Tjikembang'' (film), a film by Indonesian director The Teng Chun {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boenga Roos Dari Tjikembang (novel)
''Boenga Roos dari Tjikembang'' (; translated to English as ''The Rose of Cikembang'') is a 1927 vernacular Malay-language novel written by Kwee Tek Hoay. The seventeen-chapter book follows a plantation manager, Aij Tjeng, who must leave his beloved ''njai'' (concubine) Marsiti so that he can be married. Eighteen years later, after Aij Tjeng's daughter Lily dies, her fiancé Bian Koen discovers that Marsiti had a daughter with Aij Tjeng, Roosminah, who greatly resembles Lily. In the end Bian Koen and Roosminah are married. Inspired by the lyrics to the song "If Those Lips Could Only Speak" and William Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', ''Boenga Roos dari Tjikembang'' was initially written as an outline for the stage drama troupe Union Dalia. Kwee intermixed several languages other than Malay, particularly Dutch, Sundanese, and English; he included two quotes from English poems and another from an English song. The novel has been interpreted variously as a promotion of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
