Tenggelamnya Kapal van der Wijck (The Sinking of the van der Wijck Ship)
Description
Author: Buya Hamka
Published: Centrale Courant Medan
Year Published: 1939
Category: Fiction
Buya Hamka, apart from being known as the Father of the Nation, a scholar, and a politician, is also a famous poet. The novel Tenggelamnya Kapal van der Wijk (The Sinking of the van der Wijck Ship) is Buya Hamka's best literary work and is considered his most famous novel. This work is so famous that it has been filmed with the same title as the 2013 novel by director Sunil Soraya. This novel tells about the love story of Zainuddin and Hayati. However, this love story ended tragically because the van der Wijck ship on which Hayati was traveled sank in Tuban, when it was about to sail from Java to Sumatra.