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    "description": "<p><strong>A fierce indictment of colonialism, <em>Max Havelaar</em> is a masterpiece of Dutch literature based on the author's own experience as an adminstrator in the Dutch East Indies in the 1850s.</strong><br /><br />The Dutch East Indies, January 1856. The new assistant resident, Max Havelaar,&nbsp;arrives in the remote regency of Lebak, preceded by his reputation as a quixotic&nbsp;idealist. Some think him a fool, others a genius, but &ldquo;one thing is certain: he was an&nbsp;unusual man, and worthy of observation.&rdquo; As Havelaar crusades against corruption,&nbsp;he makes a few unsettling observations of his own. Why don&rsquo;t the financial statements&nbsp;add up? Was the previous assistant resident&rsquo;s death really an accident? And&nbsp;why are his superiors obstructing his efforts to learn the truth?<br /><br />A few years later in Amsterdam, the stolid Dutch coffee broker Batavus Drystubble&nbsp;obtains Havelaar&rsquo;s papers from the threadbare Scarfman, who wanders the streets&nbsp;in search of work. Drystubble pores over the documents in the hopes of lucrative&nbsp;revelations about the coffee trade. But his spirited young son Frits and romanticsouled&nbsp;German assistant Ernest Stern discover something much more \\ astonishing:&nbsp;a scandal that strikes at the heart of the whole Dutch colonial enterprise...<br /><br />Based on the author&rsquo;s true experiences as an administrator in Java, <em>Max Havelaar&nbsp;</em>is a fiery indictment of colonial misrule and one of the masterpieces of Dutch&nbsp;literature. This is the first new English translation of Multatuli&rsquo;s furious and funny&nbsp;masterpiece in more than fifty years.</p>",
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