LOPULALAN, FRANS

Onder de Sneeuw een Indisch Graf. Derde druk. [3rd. edn.].

Haarlem, In de Knipscheer, 1986. Orig. stiff thin wrappers, front wrapper with title and illustration, designed by Han Hehuat. 165pp. Table of contents, publ. list at very end, biogr. note incl. author's portrait printed on lower outer wrapper. Novel, based upon historical facts, describing past and present of repatriated Moluccans, earlier serving in the Royal Dutch Colonial Army, K.N.I.L., in colonial- and post-colonial Indonesia during the dutch-indonesian dispute, 1945-1950, the disbanding of the army and their [forced] repatriation to the Netherlands and their daily life. Very good copy. (previous owner's name in upper right corner at recte of f.e.p., NOT disturbing however).

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