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Vicki Baum

Love and Death in Bali

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Set against the backdrop of the Dutch invasion of Bali just over a century ago, and the resulting mass suicides of the Balinese royalty, the moving story unfolds of the peasant Pak and his family and friends, and the tragedy that is their shared fate. Written within living memory of the bloody events called the puputan (the ending), Love and Death in Bali is the story of a passionate yet peaceful and deeply spiritual people who defy the Dutch imperial forces through an act that would bring them certain death—and certain rebirth. The looting of a Chinese trading ship gives the Dutch colonial forces the perfect excuse to intervene in island a… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-4629-0018-3
  • EAN: 9781462900183
  • Produktnummer: 21857619
  • Verlag: Tuttle Publishing
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 384 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'014 KB

Über den Autor


Vicki Baum, best known as the author of Grand Hotel and The Weeping Wood fell in love with Bali on her first visit to the island in 1935.

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