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Faded Portraits (Pbk) (Library of the Indies)

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I am only now beginning to retrace the steps of my mothers life. One which began for a brief period in the Netherlands and then spread to the Dutch East Indies and a life in the colonial tropics. This book was the first one I picked up as I began my research to try and etch an image of how life must have been like for her and others like her during that time. Though my family is not descedants of the same wealth as portrayed in this book it does provide a vivid account of how certain factions of the ruling class carried out their daily lives. Oblivious to the importance of the culture that surrounded them and only focused on imposing their own. This book gave me vibrant insights, realistic portayals of characters to which I could easily relate and glimpse into a life long since gone. A book I could not put down for many, many reasons.