A young Dutch trader, Kaspar Almayer, marries Captain Lingard’s adopted Malay daughter in the hopes of one day inheriting the captain’s wealth. He moves to Borneo to run Lingard’s trading post there, but while the captain is frittering away his fortune on a hopeless treasure hunt, Almayer’s ventures fail, one after the other. In the hotpot of isolation, colonialism and frustrated desire, naming Almayer’s true folly becomes complicated.
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 192 ● ISBN 9781775414780 ● Publisher The Floating Press ● Published 2009 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2415038 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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