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Claire
Dec 08, 2016 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
A story about the dutch colonial gouvernement on Indonesia. It describes how one of the administrators slowly is overpowered by a silent force. This mystic force, invisible, yet very real to the ones involved takes over their mental and physical health.
The description of the characters and the athmosphere is very convincing and shapes a mystical world, thus conrapositioning the world of the rational Dutch and the local Indonesian inhabitants. In a world that was never meant to be their home, the
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