'What a great novel, its language and storytelling so light but
also raw and lyrical. A tremendous writer. Read this book' ADRIAAN
VAN DIS. Alan Noland 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.
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