This was a hard book to read, I'm not gonna lie. Although the story is told from third person point of view, you very much get the colonists perspective. And I have to say I don't like it one bit.
But then again, that's sort of what he wanted to achieve with this novel.
You also have to look at it as a product of its time too, I guess. In the 1930's the use of certain language was omnipresent. This 2020 translation into Dutch (the first btw) has taken that into account and has made adequate adjustments when necessary without taking away the poignancy of its original meaning.

I'm glad I read this book and I'm also glad that it made me uncomfortable, because I want to be a human before being anything else