Originally published in 1980, this is Dirk Bogarde's first novel.
In the uneasy aftermath of WWII, a group of ordinary British
soldiers and their families find themselves stationed as
peacekeepers at an outpost in the Java Sea. Whilst attempting to
return the island to Dutch control, they are subject to violent
attacks by the locals who want their freedom. As the Empire
crumbles, the island is plunged into chaos and violence amidst a
nationalist uprising. Selfishness, sex, greed, fear and revenge,
all play their part; though so too do the finer instincts of love,
loyalty and concern. At times gloriously funny, never sitting in
judgement, Dirk Bogarde portrays mankind's fallible, complex
humanity as the thin skin of conventional behaviour, tautened in
the corrosive atmosphere of Southeast Asia, gradually begins to
split.
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