The Interpreter from Java - Brossura

Birney, Alfred

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1788544331 ISBN 13: 9781788544337

Casa editrice: Apollo, 2020

Riassunto

A son distils his father's life in the Dutch East Indies into one furious utterance - everything from the atrocities of the Japanese occupation, and the war of independence that followed, to his father's violent and unpredictable treatment of his children in his new homeland, postwar Holland.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Alfred Birney was born in 1951. For The Interpreter from Java he was awarded the Libris Literature Prize, the Netherlands' premier literary award, and the Henriëtte Roland Holst Prize. He lives in the Netherlands but speaks English fluently and will be coming to the UK for publication.

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Alan Nolan discovers his father's memoirs and learns the truth about the violent man he despised.

In this unsparing family history, Alan distils his father's life in the Dutch East Indies into one furious utterance. He reads about his work as an interpreter during the war with Japan, his life as an assassin, and his decision to murder Indonesians in the service of the Dutch without any conscience. How he fled to the Netherlands to escape being executed as a traitor and met Alan's mother soon after. As he reads his father's story Alan begins to understand how war transformed his father into the monster he knew.

Birney exposes a crucial chapter in Dutch and European history that was deliberately concealed behind the ideological facade of postwar optimism. Readers of this superb novel will find that it reverberates long afterwards in their memory.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Apollo
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1788544331
• ISBN 13: 9781788544337
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 542
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile