Language | English |
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ISBN-10 | 0805055339 |
ISBN-13 | 9780805055337 |
No of pages | 480 |
Font Size | Medium |
Book Publisher | Henry Holt & Co |
Published Date | 15 Apr 1998 |
Christina Soccolich Godshalk (1942) is an American writer. After a stay of approximately twenty years in Southeast Asia, she wrote her only novel Kalimantaan, with which she debuted in 1998.
The novel is set on Borneo. The Dutch translation appeared under the title Kalimantan.
In the book, Goshawk gives a romanticized account of the expedition from James Brooke to Sarawak. She now lives with her husband in Beverly, Massachusetts.
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Discover an astonishing new literary voice, and rediscover the art and magic of storytelling There are some stories so strange yet full of heart that they are told and retold in the bars and backwaters of the world. This is one of that rare breed--a story of bizarre achievement and singular love. A hundred and fifty years ago, a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world that resulted, boasting stone quays, great swaths of lawn, three Christian churches, and musical levees, eventually encompassed a territory the size of England, its campaigns paid for in human heads.
It is the story of Victorian social mores superimposed on one of the most violent cultures on earth, of pockets of terns amid extreme brutality, and of a remarkable tribe of fugitives, missionaries, and romantics drawn to this remote outpost of the world.The deeper story resides in the realm of the heart. It is about love in absurd conditions, the tenacity of it as well as our ability to miss it repeatedly and with perverse genius. In the end, it is about love enduring when nothing else is left.