Half the face sags as if something has pulled down on it, the shoulder sloping oddly from the chair.
An edition of Kalimantaan
(1998)
Kalimantaan
1st ed.
by C. S. Godshalk
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One hundred and sixty years ago, a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world that resulted, boasting stone quays, elegant gardens, churches, and musical levees, eventually encompassed a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. In this world, a version of Victorian colonial society impacted with one of the most violent cultures on earth.
The results were often startling - pockets of tenderness and extreme brutality appearing in odd corners. A small tribe of fugitives, adventurers, criminals, and saints - the madly talented and the simply mad - peopled this world. This is their story. 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.
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Kalimantaan: A Novel
April 15, 1999, Owl Books
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