Jakarta is a short story by Alice Munro from 1998, the opening of which echoes the title of Virginia Woolf's work A Room of One's Own (1929): "Kath and Sonje have a place of their own on the beach ...". The two women will no longer stay in the roles they played at the beginning of the story. The story tells how Sonje and Kent look back on the summer that changed their life after 40 years of meeting, and how Sonje longs for her husband, who has disappeared in a strange way.
The title of the story refers to the Indonesian capital Jakarta . Sonje thinks that the assumption is certainly wrong, "That somebody dead might be alive and in Jakarta."
Jakarta has a length of 38 pages and was published in 1998 in The Love of a Good Woman , the ninth volume with Munro's stories. The work was neither published in a magazine nor was it later included in one of the selected volumes. In German, Jakarta is included with the same title in the volume Die Liebe einer Frau , which was published by Fischer in a translation by Heidi Zerning in 2000 and was published in the third paperback edition in 2013.
Individual evidence
↑ Jeff Birkenstein: "The Houses That Alice Munro Built: The Community of The Love of a Good Woman ". In: Alice Munro , edited by Charles E. May. Salem Press, Ipswich, Massachusetts 2013, ISBN 978-1-4298-3722-4 , pp. 212-227.
^ Isla Duncan, Alice Munro's Narrative Art , Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-230-33857-9 , pp. 106-107
