My Father's War

by Adriaan van Dis

Book Overview

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,"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156584033X
• ISBN13: 9781565840331
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

A piece of Dutch History silenced for 50 years

A hidden past revealed when a son finally faces the silence of the memories of a father and mother who were caught in Indonesia during WWII. Their son describes the horror, the fate, and family failures in a dark story. Excellent translation.