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Love and Death in Bali

Love and Death in Bali

Author(s): Vicky Baum

Location(s): Bali

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Early 20th Century

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Set against the backdrop of the Dutch invasion of Bali just over a century ago, and the resulting “mass suicides” of the Balinese royalty, “Love and Death in Bali” uses the tales of ordinary people to tell the bloody story of the conquest and subjugation of an island paradise.

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Village life is described in exquisite detail by Baum, as are all the customs and rites. She’s really captured the essence of the Balinese way of doing things, their sense of ethics. My only...

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