<p>Born in Holland after the war, a son grows up an outsider in the midst of his family. Living in isolation among the dunes of coastal Holland, he looks on as his half-caste half-sisters are mocked for their 'blue skin', endures the bizarre and brutal military training his father puts him through, and wonders about the wartime hardships his family suffered but never discusses. Years later, the middle-aged son begins a quest into his family's past in Indonesia, and the origins of his father's strange mix of charm and cruelty. Despite his sisters' denials and his mother's evasiveness, details surface about the incredible endurance of his father, one of the few survivors of torture in the camp. Returning always to the Dutch coast where he spent his childhood, the man comes to a final acceptance of his father and a new understanding of their relationship.</p>

My Father's War

ADRIAAN VAN DIS

Random House]

New Press

The powerful story of a son's struggle to understand his family's wartime experience in a Japanese concentration camp, and to come to terms with its effect on him.

Literature & Fiction

Clearway Logistics Remainders

Winnaar Libris Literatuur Prijs 2015 Na een lang leven van zwijgen en buitensluiten begint een moeder opeens te praten tegen haar zoon - aarzelende ontboezemingen over grensoverschrijdende liefde, verraad en drie oorlogen. Hij, een romanschrijver, mag haar biograaf worden, maar er is een voorwaarde: hij moet haar een zachte dood bezorgen. Ik kom terug is een tragikomedie over het woeste leven van een vrouw die terugkijkt op haar eeuw.

Ik kom terug / druk 3

Atlas-Contact

Alles is te koop

GEERT MAK

John Jansen van Galen

Hubert Smeets

H.J.A. Hofland

René Zwaap

Nijgh & Van Ditmar

Indische Duinen

RAINBOW POCKETBOEKEN

Dutch text, spine creased, cover worn. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

De wandelaar

Augustus

In het buitengebied [Dutch; Flemish]

De Wandelaar

Rubinstein

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