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The stunning bestselling Dutch novel, called "a beautifully realized novel" by the New York Times Book Review.

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Born in Holland after the war, a son grows up an outsider in the midst of his family. Living in isolation among the dunes of coastal Holland, he ... More

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Born in Holland of East Indian descent, Jan Boon's two pseudonyms corresponded to his two different writerly incarnations. As Tjalie Robinson, the ... More

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The definitive literary history of the colonial Dutch East Indies.

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A mystical Javan prince and a promiscuous wife are twin challenges to Commissioner Van Oudijck's seemingly impregnable authority. As he struggles to ... More

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Eleven stories brilliantly capture the life and culture of colonial Dutch life in Indonesia.

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Amid the lush abundance of Java's landscape, two boys spend their days exploring the vast lakes and teeming forests. But as time passes the boys come ... More

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A beautiful novel tracing one family's account of the demise of colonialism on the island of Java.

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Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman--"as unflinching as a hero in a book"--who is disgraced by a single act of cowardice while ... More

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Victory was the last of Conrad's novels to be set in the Malay Archipelago. It tells the story of Axel Heyst who, damaged by his dead father's ... More

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For West Papua and its people, the promise of sovereignty has never been realized, despite a long and fraught struggle for independence from ... More

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Ethnography that explores the political landscape of West Papua and chronicles indigenous struggles for independence during the late 1990s and early ... More

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Combining great learning, interpretative originality, analytical sensitivity, and a charismatic prose style, Clifford Geertz has produced a lasting ... More

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In 1936 anthropologist Margaret Mead and her husband, Gregory Bateson, retreated from lowland Bali, which was the focal point of much scholarly and ... More

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Set in 1939, this is the story of Louis Seynaeve, a 10 year-old Flemish boy with a wild imagination. He is a student at a convent boarding school, ... More

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A morose provincial inspector of roads in Aragon settles down to write the fable of the Snow Queen. The Netherlands has now been stretched into a ... More

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