In Search of a Name (ePub)
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
This spellbinding and intimate novel explores the burden of legacy as a young woman wrestles with discoveries that contradict her great-uncle's supposed heroism during World War II.
D says that a name always fits in the end, that a name is like a...
D says that a name always fits in the end, that a name is like a...
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This spellbinding and intimate novel explores the burden of legacy as a young woman wrestles with discoveries that contradict her great-uncle's supposed heroism during World War II.
D says that a name always fits in the end, that a name is like a leather shoe that forms itself to the foot.
But in my mind, it's the other way around: a person grows into his name.
Marjolijn van Heemstra has heard about her great-uncle's heroism for as long as she can remember. As a resistance fighter, he was the mastermind of a bombing operation that killed a Dutch man who collaborated with the Nazis, and later became a hero to everyone in the family.
So, when Marjolijn's grandmother bestows her with her great-uncle's signet ring requesting that she name her future son after him, Marjolijn can't say no. Now pregnant with her firstborn, she embarks on a quest to uncover the true story behind the myth of her late relative. Chasing leads from friends and family, and doing her own local research, Marolijn realizes that the audacious story she always heard is not as clear-cut as it was made out to be. As her belly grows, her doubts grow, toowas her uncle a hero or a criminal?
Vivid, hypnotic, and profoundly moving, In Search of a Name explores war and its aftermath and how the stories we tell and the stories we are told always seem to exist somewhere between truth and fiction.
D says that a name always fits in the end, that a name is like a leather shoe that forms itself to the foot.
But in my mind, it's the other way around: a person grows into his name.
Marjolijn van Heemstra has heard about her great-uncle's heroism for as long as she can remember. As a resistance fighter, he was the mastermind of a bombing operation that killed a Dutch man who collaborated with the Nazis, and later became a hero to everyone in the family.
So, when Marjolijn's grandmother bestows her with her great-uncle's signet ring requesting that she name her future son after him, Marjolijn can't say no. Now pregnant with her firstborn, she embarks on a quest to uncover the true story behind the myth of her late relative. Chasing leads from friends and family, and doing her own local research, Marolijn realizes that the audacious story she always heard is not as clear-cut as it was made out to be. As her belly grows, her doubts grow, toowas her uncle a hero or a criminal?
Vivid, hypnotic, and profoundly moving, In Search of a Name explores war and its aftermath and how the stories we tell and the stories we are told always seem to exist somewhere between truth and fiction.
Autoren-Porträt von Marjolijn van Heemstra
Marjolijn van Heemstra; translated by Jonathan Reeder
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Marjolijn van Heemstra
- 2020, 208 Seiten, Englisch
- Übersetzer: Jonathan Reeder
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
- ISBN-10: 1982100508
- ISBN-13: 9781982100506
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.11.2020
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