EAN: 9781982158460

IN SEARCH OF A NAME - MARJOLIJN VAN HEEMSTRA KA...

This spellbinding and intimate novel explores the burden of legacy as a young woman wrestles
with discoveries that contradict her great-uncle's supposed heroism during World War II. D says
that a name always fits in the end  that a name is like a leather shoe that forms itself to the
foot. But in my mind  it's the other way around: a person grows into his name. Marjolijn van
Heemstra has heard about her great-uncle's heroism for as long as she can remember. As a
resistance fighter  he was the mastermind of a bombing operation that killed a Dutch man who
collaborated with the Nazis  and later became a hero to everyone in the family. So  when
Marjolijn's grandmother bestows her with her great-uncle's signet ring requesting that she name
her future son after him  Marjolijn can't say no. Now pregnant with her firstborn  she embarks
on a quest to uncover the true story behind the myth of her late relative. Chasing leads from
friends and family  and doing her own local research  Marolijn realizes that the audacious
story she always heard is not as clear-cut as it was made out to be. As her belly grows  her
doubts grow  too-was her uncle a hero or a criminal? Vivid  hypnotic  and profoundly moving  In
Search of a Name explores war and its aftermath and how the stories we tell and the stories we
are told always seem to exist somewhere between truth and fiction.

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