The powerful story of a young Dutch man's attempts to settle his scores with his father and his family's memories of the war and Japanese camps in Indonesia. An international bestseller, 'My Father's War' has been translated into ten languages.
Born in Holland after the war, a son grows up an outsider in the midst of his family. Living in isolation among the dunes of coastal Holland, he looks on as his Indonesian father and sisters are mocked for their "yellow skin", endures the bizarre and brutal military training his father puts him through, and wonders about the hardships his family suffered but never discusses.
Years later, the middle-aged son begins a quest into his family's past in Indonesia, and the origins of his father's strange mix of charm and cruelty. Despite his sister's denial and his mother's evasiveness, details surface about the incredible endurance of his father, one of the few survivors of torture in the camp.
Returning always to the Dutch coast where he spent his childhood, the man comes to a final acceptance of his father and a new understanding of their relationship.
