num_pages: 472
description: A hundred and fifty years ago, a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo -- a jungle-covered land of headhunting Dyaks, mercurial Malays, and subversive overseas Chinese. The world he created, boasting stone quays, great swaths of lawn, three Christian churches, and musical levees, eventually encompassed a territory the size of England. Within this historical framework, C.S. Godshalk constructs an epic novel of vast imagination, beauty and drama. It is the story of Gideon Barr, the White Rajah, and his Ranee, two people whose perverse genius it was to miss every opportunity offered them to connect through love. In a world filled with pirates and adventurers, with headhunters, rogues, and religious madmen, Godshalk paints a vivid portrait of bravery and cowardice, and of a desire for order amid the curse of wildness.
language: English
title: Kalimantaan
titlecomplete: Kalimantaan
genres: Fiction, Historical, Asia, Adventure, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 365
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
publisher: Doubleday Canada