"In this vivid and masterful novel, a Flemish man reconstructs his grandfather's story--his life, loves, and art, all disrupted by the first World War--from the unflinching notebooks he left behind. S
“Potent. . . . Harrowing. . . . Built to last. . . . an uncanny work of historical reconstruction.” —Dwight Garner, The New York TimesThe life of Urban Martien—artist, soldier, survivor of World War I
A fierce indictment of colonialism, Max Havelaar is a masterpiece of Dutch literature based on the author's own experience as an adminstrator in the Dutch East Indies in the 1850s.The Dutch East Indie