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If an island paradise existed anywhere, it was surely in the Indonesian
island of Mapura, where Peter Henshall joins the first Europeans to
enter a country abandoned by the Dutch some thirty years before. Henshall
has no time for his fellow explorers, but the alluring figure of Hartini
Sujono, a local nightclub singer, is sufficient to draw him on into
the web of danger and deceit. Mapura is not the land of gold, she tells
him, but the land of shadows. Deep in the interior lies the forbidding
mine of Tambang Surga, where his associates help, confuse and hinder.
Even Hartini, he comes to realize, is no less a shadow puppet controlled
by outside forces than Henshall becomes in turn. US$6.95
Translated from the Sanskrit by C. John Holcombe
The Cloud Messenger is a masterpiece of Sanskrit literature, and was
composed by the court poet Kalidasa some time before AD 634 in northern
India. A Yaksha or nature deity begs a passing cloud to carry a message
across the subcontinent to his grieving consort in the fabled city of
Alaká. Under this fiction, Kalidasa presents a sympathetic portrait
of northern India, and weaves in the various moods of love traditional
in classical Sanskrit poetry. The version here is taken from the standard
1912 Hultzsch text, and employs accomplished English verse to render
the simple magnificence of the original while remaining faithful to
the meaning. Free.
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