THE RETURN A novel by Jac de Gooijer
Jacob has learned how to leave. Hong Kong. Jakarta. And now Amsterdam, where he thought that distance might finally resolve something. But on the Dam, in the middle of a crowd calling out for justice, he stops — and no longer knows what he is looking for here, or what has brought him.
The Return is a novel about a man who has spent his entire life moving between worlds: between East and West, between memory and the present, between the stories his mother gave him and a world that no longer understands those stories.
A novel about what happens when you can no longer stay away from who you are. About fathers and sons. About guilt that moves through generations. About the question of whether you can ever truly return to a place you never entirely left.
