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University of Massachusetts Press

by Antonio Benítez Rojo
Translated by J Maraniss
Original title: El mar de las lentejas

The Last House in the World (1939) [Buy Direct]

by Beb Vuyk
Translated by Andre Lefevere
Original title: Het laatste huis van de wereld

The Last House of the World, Beb Vuyk’s second novel, was published shortly before the end of the Dutch colonial era in the East. In 1949 the author opted, unusually, for Indonesian citizenship, but in 1958 she returned to the Netherlands, (more...)

John Company (1932) [Buy Direct]

by Arthur van Schendel
Translated by Frans van Rosevelt
Original title: Jan Compagnie

Arthur van Schendel was born in Batavia (present-day Jakarta) and became a leading Dutch novelist between the two world wars. In the 1930s he wrote a series of novels on specifically Dutch subjects, (more...)

Country of Origin (1935) [Buy Direct]

by Edgar du Perron
Translated by Francis Bulhof and Elisabeth Daverman
Original title: Het land van herkomst

Country of Origin is an exploration of self, an autobiographical work which, though based on the life of the writer, journalist and critic Edgar du Perron, has as its main character Arthur Ducroo. It also a novel about writing. (more...)

Patriotism, Inc. And Other Tales [Buy Direct]

by Paul van Ostaijen
Translated by E.M. Beekman
Original title: (Selections)

By the time he died of TB in 1928 at the age of thirty-two, Paul van Ostaijen had developed into the most inventive avant-garde poet in Flanders and has since been recognised as the most influential of its Modernist critics. (more...)

The Oyster and the Eagle [Buy Direct]

by Multatuli
Translated by E.M. Beekman
Original title: (Selections)

Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company [Buy Direct]

by Multatuli
Translated by Roy Edwards
Original title: Max Havelaar

In 1860, the novel Max Havelaar by Multatuli, pseudonym of Eduard Douwes Dekker (1820-1887), gave voice to Holland’s uneasy conscience about its colonial enterprise in the East Indies. The book shocked the nation, (more...)

The Counselor (1958)

by H.J. Friedericy
Translated by Hans Koning
Original title: De raadsman

Like A. Alberts, H.J. Friedericy served as a civil servant in the colonial administration of the Netherlands East Indies, spending most of his career on the island of Celebes, in and around Macassar, under the same magnificent sunsets that Somerset Maugham had witnessed in 1922. (more...)

The Ten Thousand Things (1956) [Buy Direct]

by Maria Dermout
Translated by Hans Koningsberger
Original title: De tienduizend dingen

Maria Dermoût (1888-1961) was born and grew up on the Indonesian island of Java. Although she had been telling and writing stories all her life, she didn’t start publishing until she was in her sixties. Her two novels, (more...)

Ups and Downs of Life in the Indies [Buy Direct]

by P.A. Daum
Translated by Donald and Elsje Sturtevant
Original title: Ups en downs in het Indische leven

P.A. Daum lived and worked in nineteenth-century Batavia (present-day Jakarta) as a journalist, newspaper editor and novelist. Between 1883 and 1894 he published ten novels, initially as serials in his own newspaper. (more...)

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