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Throughout the narrator's childhood his Turkish father sits in a corner of the sofa, angry and out of reach. He never learns Dutch and never teaches his children Turkish, so father and son barely talk. Hardly grown up, the son escapes to San Francisco. When he has children of his own and wants to break the family pattern, he realises he knows nothing of his father's history and turns to fiction to fill the blanks, letting the reader watch the novel being made, until he decides to go back to his parents' house in Hengelo for the first time since he left. The book also shows how the Netherlands treated its guest workers.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

369 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Migration, Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Netherlands, United States

First published

2021 by Atlas Contact

ISBN

9789025470128 (original)