Author: BAUMANN, G. RUDOLF,
Title: Als de Doerians vallen. De Javaan Asnap vertelt uit zijn leven. Translated into dutch after the original german edition by Diet Kramer. First dutch edn.
Description: Baarn, Bosch & Keuning, s.d. [..], 1940. Small 8°. orig. cloth, both sided with an elaborately gilt tooled broad border, spine with a gilt tooled and lettered title-label. 212pp. Large ills. in text, of which some full-page, all after drawings by Günther G. Böhme, glossary malay-dutch at very end. Novel, set on an estate at East Coast Sumatra, Batak-country, being a description of estate-life drawn by a javanese servant of an administrator. Incl. i.a. notes on the Batak population, cannibalism, on a [criminal] chinese, fleeing to Singapore after his escape during his trasport to a civil service office. Nice copy.

Keywords: literature novel batak sumatra javanese servance estate life colonialism indonesia buur southeast asia