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    The Forbidden Kingdom

    By Jan Jacob Slauerhoff

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    Slauerhoff's The Forbidden Kingdom is a blend of historical chronicle, fiction and commentary, bringing together the seemingly unrelated lives of a twentieth-century ship's radio operator and the sixteenth-century Portuguese poet-in-exile, Luis Camoes. Slauerhoff draws his reader into a dazzling world of exoticism, betrayal and exile, where past and present merge and the possibility of death is never far away.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPushkin Press
    Release dateAug 30, 2012
    ISBN9781908968753
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