The Gardens of Buitenzorg
Long before Jan Brokken (1949) was born, his parents lived in Indonesia, a Dutch colony at the time. Brokken never knew much about that part of his parents’ past.
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Original title
De tuinen van Buitenzorg
Author
Jan Brokken
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Brokken brings every sentence to life. 'The Gardens of Buitenzorg' is vintage non-fiction by an internationally esteemed craftsman.
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Jan Brokken travels through history and comes home.
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Jan Brokken
Jan Brokken (b. 1949) is a writer of novels, travel stories and literary non-fiction. He has garnered international fame with, among other books, 'The Blind Passengers', 'My Little Madness', 'Baltic Souls', 'In the Poet’s House', 'The Reprisal', 'The Cossack’s Garden', 'The Just', 'City Pilgrim' and 'The Camp Painters'. His work has been translated into Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Czech, Portuguese, Spanish and many more.