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Van Dis, Adriaan

 
9781565840331: My Father's War: A Novel
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ISBN 10 : 156584033X ISBN 13 : 9781565840331
Editeur : The New Press, 2009

Synopsis

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.


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À propos de l'auteur

Adriaan van Dis, born in Holland in 1946, is a leading Dutch writer and popular television show host. He is the author of a number of books, both fiction and nonfiction, of which this is the first to be translated into English.

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Éditeur
The New Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
156584033X
ISBN 13 
9781565840331
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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