New York: The Viking Press, 1936. dj. Hardcover first edition - Uncommon first English language edition of the second novel by this writer of European heritage who was born on the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), the daughter of a colonial civil servant and whose first marriage was to a Dutch rubber planter on the island of Sumatra. This novel, set in a world she knew well, "immortalized the image of the Javanese coolie as enduring a wretched and miserable existence. . . The story follows the fate of a young Javanese man, Ruki, who is lured from his idyllic village to the rubber plantations of Sumatra. Lulofss fictionalized account of coolie life has been held to accurately depict the lifeworld of those who toiled on Sumatras plantations." (Nicole Lamb) . Translated from the Dutch by G. J. Renier and Irene Clephane. Dust jacket design by Lynd Ward. 243 pp.