The Forbidden Kingdom
- List Price: $18.00
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Pushkin Press, Limited
- Publish date: 02/12/2013
Description:
A 1930s Cloud Atlas - a classic of Dutch literature Slauerhoff's The Forbidden Kingdom is a blend of historical chronicle, fiction and commentary, bringing together the seemingly unrelated lives of a twentieth century ship's radio operator and the sixteenth century Portuguese poet-in-exile, Luis Camoes. Slauerhoff draws his reader into a dazzling world of exoticism, betrayal and exile, where past and present merge and the possibility of death is never far away. Through a narrative that evolves into a critique of European history, culture and colonialism, Slauerhoff speculates about the lessons to be learnt from history.
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