Bitter Bonds
Douban
A Colonial Divorce Drama of the Seventeenth Century
Leonard Blusse
overview
The story of a rich, half-Japanese beauty in Batavia and her tempestuous divorce from a cold, tough colonial official. Leonard Blusse's new book is...for the light it casts on love and life on a colonial frontier, the most illuminating since 'The Cheese and the Worms'.
contents
Foreword
Chapter 1: Otemba
Chapter 2: Period Piece
Chapter 3: Portrait of a Marriage
Chapter 4: Setting the Scene
Chapter 5: Give and Take
Chapter 6: The Parrot’s Account
Chapter 7: The Lost Sheep
Chapter 8: The So-Called Reconciliation
Chapter 9: The Last Round
Chapter 10: The Bitter End
Afterword
Endnotes
Bibliography
Suggested Reading
