Darko Stanimirovi Stanimirovi itibaren Daman Jan, East Azerbaijan, Iran itibaren Daman Jan, East Azerbaijan, Iran

The first novel in a softcore werewolf porn murder mystery series...I should have a shelf just named "guilty pleasures" and get it over with. How Catholic of me.

It took me a bit to get into this memoir of a young Dutch boy growing up in a work-camp in Java during World War II. But once I did, I loved the simple description of his memories. I am often irritated by memoirs of childhood that seem to exaggerate or analyze childhood experiences so that the voice of the child and the voice of the adult author are all mixed up. But this book does a great job of taking the reader into a world where toy soldiers and scavenged bits of food were precious commodities. The way he learns about joy in hard times and how caring and responsibility go together was clear, but never cheesy. I think this would be a good book to read slowly.