# The Hidden Force

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- Book: [The Hidden Force](https://www.bookquiver.com/louis-couperus/the-hidden-force) ([The Hidden Force.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/louis-couperus/the-hidden-force.md))
- Authors: [Louis Couperus](https://www.bookquiver.com/louis-couperus), [Paul Vincent](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-vincent)
- Publisher: pushkin_press
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-19-0896-822-7
- Published: 2012-09-25
- Language: en_US
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Set in Java at the height of Dutch colonial rule in the East Indies, Couperus’s evocative and sensual narrative depicts the clash between Western rationalism, represented by the district commissioner...