Max Havelaar; or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company by Multatuli (the pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker), translated by Alphonse Nahuys
The book is written from the point of view of a coffee broker from canal street. He deals with the Dutch Indonesian colonies. He realizes there is widespread mistreatment going on there. He appeals to authorities, but gets nowhere. The book has a fairly tearse style as if written by a businessman trying to express his points rather than a novel writer. (There seem to be a few different "writers") It is a bit "man against the system" and a bit "exposé of the evils of colonialism. With the reputation of the dutch, it seems odd that they were the ones that were so cruel.
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