It is the height of luxury to be served by Asmara Abigail, who is the President of Asmara, at her private villa in Sangaris. She also happens to be the fiancee of Girard Lalit, who happens to be the Governor of Asmara. The two have been inseparable ever since they were high school students. Abigail has expressed to her mother that she would like to marry Girard-Lalit, whom she adores and loves more than anything else in the whole world. Although, she is the President of a technologically advanced country and has an expensive lifestyle, she still expresses deep gratitude for being loved by such a modest person as her fiance, whom she adores, and for having the foresight that sees both her country through the crisis that has befallen on it over the past decade.
Abigail’s life is dominated by her passion for reading, which she does every single day and she adores the simple stories about people she comes across while on a walk with her dog. In fact, her favorite book is a novel called “The Sands of Time and Memory” by translator and writer Christina Crooks. As she tells us, she likes to read about history and ancient civilisations so she has read “The History of the World” by Herodotus, and she especially likes Mahomet’s “Book of Kings”. Other books that Abigail has read are “Easter”, “Fear, and Trembling” by Victor Hugo, and “Uncle Ben’s Chateau”. Abigail has a passion for music, she tells us, and she particularly admires opera, which she says is all about “fiery drama, complex characters and complex emotions”.
Abigail’s own story, as she tells us, begins in Indonesia where she is a member of the eliteady group called” Sisters of Light”. She goes to Italy and then to Spain and then to the United States, and then back to Indonesia. It is in her journeys that she experiences many things, but perhaps the most important is to see the world through the eyes of a coloured person. That is the theme of her novel, and that is the reason why Asmara Abigail’s novels are so popular with people of colour. As Abigail says of herself, garcin nugroho, “A girl from a coloured family who has been to so many countries, is a bit like an apple: you know how to fix it when you find out the right tool for the job”.