Synopsis
In January 1935, Rob, a young Dutchman, departs to Capetown in search of adventure. After a brutal stint in the diamond mines, Rob sails to Java to join up in the Dutch army which is making a last stand against the Japanese invading army. Here he meets a fellow Dutchman, Guus, in whom he finds a soul mate, the best friend he will ever have. They are soon captured by the Japanese. Together they survive the hell of labouring on the Burma railway, and together they leap off their ship when it is torpedoed. Rob never sees his friend again, but he spends his life unable to find peace with the shadow of the past hanging over him, unable to accept love, unable to forgive himself for his imagined failings.
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À propos de l'auteur
Otto de Kat is the pen name of a distinguished Dutch publisher. His prize-winning previous novel, Figure in the Distance is published in Holland, Germany and France. Sam Garrett is the translator of Geert Mak's Europe and of Tim Krabbe's The Rider, for which he won the Vondel Prize in 2003.
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