Author: SZÉKELY, LASZL - MADELON H. SZÉKELY-LULOFS (EDITOR),
Title: Rimboe. [Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: Amsterdam, Wereldvenster, [cop.], 1939. Stout medium 8°, Original publ. cloth, dustjacket designed by Mohr. Covertitle and spine in bold gilded capital type. Hftitle (verso blank). 251pp. Dutch language novel by which a picture is painted after author's own experiences as a planter at Deli, East Coast Sumatra. Author describes in rather detail daily work and life of a Deli tobacco planter, an employee, and his work on a Tobacco estate which includes i.a. information about the hardships, poor treatment and brutalism towards estate coolies, concubinage, chinese mandoors during a period of rapid economic development of the region. It De-mythologizes the general popular opinion about life and work on large dutch and foreign estates mid-1920s beginning 1930s. Athor's début, higly praised and deeply rejected by those 'insiders' taking offence to the realism in this novel. Very gooed and clean copy, WITH DUSTJACKET, seldomly found present.

Keywords: novel demasque history tobacco estates experiences criticism offence anticolonialism deli eastcoast sumatra economy development management coolies concubinage history colonialism agriculture indonesia