The Kimono

The Kimono concerns a boy, Eduard, growing up during World War II in Bandung, Java, and after the war in Amsterdam and Brussels. The kimono flows through the narrative as an image of his mother. His father is a prisoner of war near Nagasaki where theMoreThe Kimono concerns a boy, Eduard, growing up during World War II in Bandung, Java, and after the war in Amsterdam and Brussels. The kimono flows through the narrative as an image of his mother. His father is a prisoner of war near Nagasaki where the bomb fell. Weaving recognisable facts and fiction into a tapistry of sights, sounds and emotions, the narrative ends in some kind of acknowledgement of the self.