gentlemen exploring and making the best of what they can do
(as i am told they are family of my elder brother and sisters, from the first marriage of my father
see: our genealogy at the kolff family website)

hella haase knows: she was born and bread in the dutch east indies
not as a colonial subject, more as a part of that section of our planet

hella haasse is probably one of the best writers of holland in the 20th century
her work remains popular and is still read over decades after the independance of indonesia
she understands history, in the perspective we all dream of:
in a way I see it as it should be seen, to my idea, from within the time it is written and understood