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Yesterday by Dermoût, Maria is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Yesterday about?

In this bewitching story-memoir, Maria Dermout recollects the moods, the colors, the emotions, the dramas of a childhood, more than half a century ago, in Java.The East Indies of long ago, and the equally magic and faraway world of childhood, are seen through time as through a gauze curtain: the house in the walled garden, the birds like animated jewels, the deer stepping carefully through wet grass, the Dutch Colonial gentlemen driv-ing to great gala balls at twilight — tall white candles burning in their carriage lanterns— to waltz on marble-floored verandas with ladies in decollete; the porcelain tea pavilion in the orchard; Papa in long batik trousers and a starched white jacket at breakfast; the artist-sorcerer natives— and the little girl born in Java of Dutch ancestors, nurtured on magic, accustomed to being surrounded by beauty, with her shadowy knowledge of a distant Europe, her innocent comprehension of her young aunt’s love affair, her recognition of a respected elder’s evil nature, and her final farewell to the enchanted world of her childhood as she leaves the islands for school in Holland. All this is re-ereated with luminous grace and simplicity.

Who reads Yesterday?

Author

Dermoût, Maria

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Thriller, Fiction

Rating

3.41 / 5 (484 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14