Translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke, this is a classic tale of the European settlers' experience in the Far East. The book is currently being adapted for the stage. 'A graceful, marvellously achieved improvisation that only a novelist of the imagination and sympathy could have written' Juian Evans, }Guardian The great masterpiece of the living Dutch novelist most often tipped as a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature - a classic tale of the European settlers' experience in the Far East worthy of Conrad or Kipling
