[issybird]

Originally Posted by desertblues

Thank you, Issybird, that sets my heart at ease.
I am reading some of the Dutch writers who either have been born or were raised in Indonesia, or have Indonesian roots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hella_Haasse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriaan_van_Dis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Bloem
And I am preparing my traveljournal with an eye on the historical or rather colonial ties of the Netherlands and Indonesia. For a great part this is a painful story of love, hate and cruel things.

I read Haasse's The Tea Lords after you nominated it in some category. Fascinating on a topic about which I knew nothing at all, that of the Dutch in Indonesia.