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A son distils his father's life in the Dutch East Indies into one furious utterance - everything from the atrocities of the Japanese occupation, and the war of independence that followed, to his father's violent and unpredictable treatment of his children in his new homeland, postwar Holland.
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Alfred Birney was born in 1951. For The Interpreter from Java he was awarded the Libris Literature Prize, the Netherlands' premier literary award, and the Henriëtte Roland Holst Prize. He lives in the Netherlands but speaks English fluently and will be coming to the UK for publication.
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