THE RETURN
A Novel from Jac de Gooijer
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A story about family,
history, and the way home.
About fathers and sons.
About guilt that moves through generations.
And about the question of whether
you can ever truly return to a place
younever entirely left.
THE RETURN
A Novel from Jac de Gooijer
____
A story about family, history, and the way home.
About fathers and sons. About guilt that moves through
generations. And about the question of whether
you can ever truly return to a place you
never entirely left.
Generations trembled in him,
Echoes of stories
His mother had told.
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CHAPTER 1
Generations trembled in him, echoes of stories his mother had told. A chain of warnings stretching back through time:
"You have heard this before, and it did not end well."
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AMSTERDAM, A WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
He wanted to walk home. To empty his head in the cold.
But the Dam was closed off,
not by barricades or police,
but by a wave of sound.
He felt it in his bones before he saw it.
"From the river to the sea."
Words he could not understand, but could feel.
Generations trembled in him.
Echoes of stories his mother had told.
And stories she had heard from her mother.
THIS HAD NEVER BEEN ONLY ABOUT POLITICS.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jac de Gooijer writes about, the Bible, Israel, and the church, and about the questions that arise when ancient stories collide with a modern world.The Return is his debut novel.
