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1 online resource (1 audio file (16hr., 39 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Leighton Pugh. |
| Summary |
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. Translation (c) David Doherty, 2020 |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
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Abusive men -- Fiction.
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War criminals -- Fiction.
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Translators -- Fiction.
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Military interrogation -- Fiction.
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Assassins -- Fiction.
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Imperialism -- Fiction.
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Netherlands -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Doherty, David (Translator), translator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781800240087 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1800240082 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13341720 |
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