The narrative is set on the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies.

In 2010, a feature-film adaptation was announced as under development with Paul Verhoeven as director.

[1] In 1985 E.M. Beekman published a revised edition of Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' translation dd 1921; a new translation by Paul Vincent came in 2012.

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