What is written on the tongue. A Novel [eBook]

Lazurko, Anne2022

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For readers of Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, a transportive historical novel about finding morality in the throes of war and colonization Released from Nazi forced labor as World War II ends, 20-year-old Sam is quickly drafted and sent to the island of Java to help regain control of the colony. But the Indonesian independence movement is far ahead of the Dutch, and Sam is thrown into a guerilla war, his loyalties challenged when his squad commits atrocities reminiscent of those he suffered at the hands of the Nazis. Sam falls in love with both Sari and the beautiful island she calls home, but as he loses friends to sniper fire and jungle malady, he also loses sight of what he wants most - to be a good man. Released from Nazi forced labour as WWII ends, twenty-year old Samuel Vandenberg is quickly drafted and sent to the island of Java to help regain control of the East Indies colony. The story of one young man's journey from being occupied to holding the gun, from having an enemy to becoming one. Anne Lazurko's first novel, Dollybird, won the WILLA Award for Historical Fiction. She has short fiction and poetry published in literary magazines and anthologies and is an active teacher, editor, and mentor in the prairie writing community. An award-winning journalist and no-awards farmer, she lives near Weyburn, Saskatchewan. "This novel is the vivid and gripping story of a man caught in two brutal occupations: Sam is first a young victim of the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands in World War Two. He then becomes a colonial perpetrator as a Dutch soldier in the occupying army of Indonesia in the late forties. He suffers and then he deals out suffering. In this moving novel, Sam must search for a way to navigate his way through moral quagmires and find some kind of peace for himself and the ones he loves." - Antanas Sileika, author of Provisionally Yours "What is Written on the Tongue isn't an easy novel, but I highly recommend that you read it, because what it asks us to do is remember, not only the past, but also that the better angels of our own natures can transform into demons, given the right circumstances." - Prairie Fire Sales and Market Bullets - When Lazurko's father was 80 years old he casually said, "When I had the nervous breakdown in Indonesia." This piqued Anne's interest, and she began her research into what happened in the Dutch East Indies post WWII. She traveled to Java to experience the sights and sounds of the jungle and to understand what happened during the Indonesian Independence Movement and what her father may have gone through. - For readers of Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried - Anne Lazurko's debut novel, Dollybird (Coteau, 2013), was shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Fiction Award (2014) and won the WILLA Award for Historical Fiction (2014). Audience - Fans of Slaughterhouse Five, The Things They Carried, and similar "masculine" war fiction - Fans of John Irving, Larry McMurtrie, Cormac McCarthy - Readers of generational epic war fiction