Laurens van der Post (1963) and "The Night of the New Moon" (1970). Japanese film director Nagisa Oshima based his film "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence" (1982) on the last two of these books. Following the surrender of Japan, while his fellow POWs were repatriated, van der Post chose to remain in Java, and on 15 September 1945, he joined Admiral Wilfrid Patterson on HMS "Cumberland" for the official surrender of the Japanese in Java to British forces representing the Allies. Van der Post then spent two years helping to mediate between Indonesian nationalists and members of the Dutch Colonial Government. He had gained trust
Parable of the Sower (novel) The Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival in New York City in 2015 and in 2018. "Parable of the Sower" was referred to in hip-hop artist Talib Kweli's song "Ms. Hill" off his mixtape "". In the song, which is about Lauryn Hill, Kweli references how Lauryn Hill used to come into Nkiru (a bookstore Kweli owns in Brooklyn, New York) and liked to buy Octavia Butler books, namely "Parable of the Sower". "We used to chill at Nkiru / her moms was a customer / she used to love to buy the books by Octavia Butler / Parable of