Repatriated

An inventive, blackly funny novel about an adolescent boy trying to escape from his parents' past. It is a melancholy slapstick about how the individual experiences history, about our colonial legacy and modern paranoia. It is funny, troubling and moving.

Van Dis, Adriaan

Literature & Fiction

William Heinemann

Betrayal

MacLehose Press

My Father’s War is the gripping 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 effects on him. Born in Holland after the Second World War, the boy grows up as an outsider in the midst of his part-Indonesian family. Living in isolation among the dunes of coastal Holland, he looks on as his father and sisters are mocked for their “yellow skin,” endures the bizarre and brutal military training his father puts him through, and wonders about the hardships his family suffered but never mentioned.
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’ denial 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 dunes of his childhood, the man comes to a final acceptance of his father and a new understanding of their relationship.
Reminiscent of Harry Mulisch’s The Assault for its moving exploration of the indirect effects of World War II, My Father’s War also brings to mind Philip Roth’s Patrimony in its unblinking search for understanding between a hard father and a sensitive son.

My Father's War: A Novel (New Press International Fiction Series)

Contemporary

The New Press

Sur la route de la soie

Genre Fiction

Actes-sud

Ik kom terug: roman (Dutch Edition)

Uitgeverij Augustus

Klifi: woede in de republiek Nederland : roman

Atlas-Contact

Vijf vrolijke verhalen

Humor & Satire

Zilver

Meulenhoff

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Indische Duinen

Amsterdam

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