New IntroductionPrefaceIntroduction The Wreck of the Sri KumalaThe PuriBoelelengThe People of Taman SariThe BirthdayThe Bad TimeRakaThe SrawahThe End
Vicki Baum, best known as the author of Grand Hotel and
The Weeping Wood fell in love with Bali on her first visit to the
island in 1935. There she met German painter and musician Walter
Spies, a longtime Bali resident with an unrivaled knowledge of
Balinese life. He bequeathed her the raw material for fashioning
this compelling tale.
Nigel Barley trained as an anthropologist and linguist and
served some twenty years as an Assistant Keeper of the British
Museum, where he was the curator of African and Indonesian
collections. his most recent book, Island of Demons (Monsoon:
Singapore), is a novelistic treatment of the artist Walter Spies
and his milieu.
"Written within living memory of the bloody events called the puputan (the 'ending'), Love and Death in Bali is the story of peaceful and deeply spiritual people who defy Dutch imperial forces. First published in German in 1937, Love and Death in Bali is considered by many to be the finest novel ever written about the island." --InBUSINESS Ireland
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