Alfred Birney & David Doherty
BASED ON A TRUE STORY
Winner of the Libris Literature Prize (Netherland Premier Literary Award), and the Henriette Roland Holst Prize
Alan Noland discovers his father's memoirs about the atrocities committed in the Dutch East Indies during the war with Japan - and Alan begins to understand how war transformed his father.
'What a great novel, its language and storytelling so light but also raw and lyrical. A tremendous writer. Read this book' Adriaan van Dis, author of My Father's War and Betrayal. 'A work of unbridled, incensed storytelling: an assault on the lazy assumptions of parochial, colonial history and a personal quest for redemption' South China Morning Post.
542 pages, 160 x 235mm, hardcover, Apollo, 2020.
Product Code: 9781788544320
