Kalimantaan

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"Kalimantaan contains a whole world— one that, upon reaching the last page, yoflflf immediately want to revisit." —Michael Upchurch, Chicago Tribune
One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions coexisted tenuously with one of the most violent cultures on earth, often with startling results: pockets of tenderness and extreme brutality appearing where lea$t expected.
\Into this world flowed a small tribe of adventurers, fugi-tivek, criminals, and saints—the madly talented and the simply piad. And the women followed: wives and would-be wivek spinster nursemaids and heartless schemers, the rigidly virtuous and the virtually desperate. And always, the children, innocents too often the victims of an elemental nature both lush and deadly.
Kalimantaan is the story of this world,... Tovább

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"Kalimantaan contains a whole world— one that, upon reaching the last page, yoflflf immediately want to revisit." —Michael Upchurch, Chicago Tribune
One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions coexisted tenuously with one of the most violent cultures on earth, often with startling results: pockets of tenderness and extreme brutality appearing where lea$t expected.
\Into this world flowed a small tribe of adventurers, fugi-tivek, criminals, and saints—the madly talented and the simply piad. And the women followed: wives and would-be wivek spinster nursemaids and heartless schemers, the rigidly virtuous and the virtually desperate. And always, the children, innocents too often the victims of an elemental nature both lush and deadly.
Kalimantaan is the story of this world, these people. But the deeper story resides in the realm of the heart. It is about love in absurd conditions, the tenacity of it as well as our ability to misAit repeatedly and with perverse genius.
"A brilliant historical chronicle, adorned with inventi\% incident and poetic sensibility and suggesting a somber and illuminating message." —Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review
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