Kisah Tragis Oei Hui Lan is a
true story novel based on a girl named
Oei Hui Lan, the second daughter of Oei Tiong Ham, a man who called "
The Sugar King from Semarang". Since she's still a little girl she always get a great facility, good food, big house, beautiful clothes, and many more. But eventhough from the outside she looks like a happy person, but from the inside, it's so different. Her father has so many mistresses, while her mother just want his money. Because her ambitious mother, she entered the high class European aristocratic and became part of it. While her husband,
Wellington Koo, whom she married just because her mother's ambition was a Chinese's official and one of the successor for PBB. And her sister,
Oei Tjong Lan, married to a man named
Ting Liang. Her perfect world ends when her father decided to be with
Lucy Ho, her mother's cousin. And since then she lives separately with her father. And there's still more. When her father died, which she believes that he's poisoned by Lucy Ho, he left money for about 8 mistresses and more than 42 children in his will. And Hui Lan, once again, get the biggest amount of money, even more than her mother and her sister. But until now, the intrigue hasn't end. This book shows us that money and wealth can't buy everything. But those 2 things can turn a human into a monster. The most famous quote there is
No Feast Last Forever.
Kisah Tragis Oei Hui Lan is a true story novel based on a girl named Oei Hui Lan, the second daughter of Oei Tiong Ham, a man who called "The Sugar King from Semarang". Since she's still a little girl she always get a great facility, good food, big house, beautiful clothes, and many more. But eventhough from the outside she looks like a happy person, but from the inside, it's so different. Her father has so many mistresses, while her mother just want his money. Because her ambitious mother, she entered the high class European aristocratic and became part of it. While her husband, Wellington Koo, whom she married just because her mother's ambition was a Chinese's official and one of the successor for PBB. And her sister, Oei Tjong Lan, married to a man named Ting Liang. Her perfect world ends when her father decided to be with Lucy Ho, her mother's cousin. And since then she lives separately with her father. And there's still more. When her father died, which she believes that he's poisoned by Lucy Ho, he left money for about 8 mistresses and more than 42 children in his will. And Hui Lan, once again, get the biggest amount of money, even more than her mother and her sister. But until now, the intrigue hasn't end. This book shows us that money and wealth can't buy everything. But those 2 things can turn a human into a monster. The most famous quote there is No Feast Last Forever.
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