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“Watch them riding through the night, the prime minister of the new country and the former prime minister of the old country, see their car driving down the city’s avenues, see them growing smaller. It was the first time that a Dutchman and an Indonesian at this level had interacted with each other with such warmth, almost as friends. It was also the last time. The car disappeared into the distance.”

Ik vind het nu al een fantastisch boek! Heel goed en boeiend geschreven. En ik denk dat we een niet-Nederlandse schrijver nodig hadden om over onze ingewikkelde relatie met Indonesië te schrijven. Had Nederland maar beter naar Multatuli geluisterd!