Azab dan Sengsara
By Merari Siregar
Mariamin and Aminu'ddin, who have grown up as neighbours in the highlands of Sipirok, hope to marry, but his father, bound by family interest and custom, sends him away and has Mariamin married off to a stranger. Merari Siregar's novel of 1920, one of the first modern novels in Indonesian, follows her suffering to its end and sets it against the claims of adat and money.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.