My Father's War is the gripping story of a son's struggle to understand his family's wartime experience in a Japanese concentration camp, and to come to terms with its effects on him. Born in Holland after the war, the boy grows up an outsider in the midst of his part-Indonesian family. Living in isolation among the dunes of coastal Holland, he looks on as his father and sisters are mocked for...

As the radio broadcasts news of H bomb tests, Mr Java, a war-damaged ex-colonial, writes letters of complaint to the authorities and stands at the front window, on the look out for spies and nuclear holocaust. His family forms a sort of Greek chorus, providing a sceptical commentary as his obsessions build towards a dark, absurdist climax.

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 half-caste half-sisters are mocked for their 'blue skin', and wonders about the wartime hardships his family suffered but never discusses.

This is the story of a son's struggle to understand his family's wartime experience in a Japanese concentration camp, and his attempts to come to terms with its effect on him.