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Book Club: A Shadow Falls in the Heart of Java

Posted on February 13, 2010 by kopyor

Less than a few chapters into Andrew Beatty’s ethnographic travel memoir A Shadow Falls in the Heart of Java the two Big Bads in the book emerge:  The State & Reformist Islam. Through efficient descriptive vignettes about the people in … Continue reading →

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