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    "annotation": "<p>A Javanese-Dutch student arrives in war-torn Indochina in 1951, in search of a mythical monastery. He hires 12-year old Nguyen to be his guide. The boy has a wise grandmother and a ravishing mother...</p>",
    "description": "<p>Indochina, 1951. Tonkin and northern Annam have been liberated by the Vietminh. In the south, the French are fighting a vicious battle to keep the corrupt regime in <br />Saigon in power.<br />We meet Ruben in Nha Trang, an Annamese port town where he debarked from a French ocean liner in search of a monastery that a script said had to be somewhere in the mountains of Annam.<br />It was not the only reason for his quest: he had inherited a chest with unusual contents: a small skeleton. <br />Accompanying the chest was this manuscript - played into his hands by an old librarian - from a relative who had not survived the war. In it, he mentioned a monastery of the unknown order of Zong. A Chinese word, he would later find out, but the order seemed to be Japanese....<br />He engaged a boy in Nha Trang, who would be his guide. Not only that: the boy has a grandmother and a mother. Ruben blends into Annamese life, trekking through forests and mountains with Nguyen and later also with Yen, Nguyen&rsquo;s mother. They travel by smuggling ships, old junks and rattling coasters from North to South and back again, through a war-torn country.</p>",
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            "key_names": "Storm Van Leeuwen",
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