by Adriaan van Dis · Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG · tapa dura · ISBN 9783446178922
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«Nathan Sid» is the novel by Adriaan van Dis, published by Carl Hanser Verlag in hardcover (94 pages, in German).
The protagonist, Nathan Sid, grows up in a Dutch-Indonesian family alongside three brown-skinned sisters and a stern father. The novel, Adriaan van Dis's debut, follows his childhood and youth memories and describes the clash between Dutch and Indonesian culture in the Netherlands, as well as the search for identity within a household marked by the colonial past.
Work originally published in 1983, translated from Dutch by Siegfried Mrotzek. Winner of the Gouden Ezelsoor prize in 1984. This German edition is from 1996.
For those seeking autobiographical fiction and coming-of-age stories about families marked by the cultural conflict between the Netherlands and Indonesia.
Adriaan van Dis is a Dutch author. He debuted in 1983 with the novella Nathan Sid. In 1995 his book Indische Duinen, which in its narrative is a follow-up to his debut novella, was also awarded several prestigious literary awards.
