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In the spirit of Susan Faludi's In the Darkroom and Edmund de Waal's Hare with the Amber Eyes comes an engrossing, epic saga of one familys experiences on both sides of World War II, questioning our notions of victim and perpetrator and the lasting effects of war and trauma through the generations of one family. In March 1942, Mieke Eerkens father was a ten-year-old boy living in the Dutch East Indies. When the Japanese invaded the island he, his family, and one hundred thousand other Dutch civilians were interned in a concentration camp and forced into hard labor for three years. After the Japanese surrendered, Miekes father and his family were set free in a country that plunged immediately into civil war. Across the globe in the Netherlands, police carried a crying five-year-old girl out of her home at wars end, abandoned and ostracized as a daughter of Nazi sympathizers. This was Mieke's mother. She would be left on the street in front of her sealed home as her parents were taken away and imprisoned in the same camps where the countrys Jews had recently been held. Many years later, Miekes parents met, got married, and moved to California, where she and her siblings were born

Author

Eerkens, Mieke, author

Publisher

New York: Picador

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781250117793

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.9 / 5 (51 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14