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The Right to Return
Published by Diogenes as Das Recht auf Rückkehr
Original Title: Het Recht op Terugkeer
Tel Aviv in the year 2024: Israel is reduced to a heavily secured city state, a narrow strip of land by the sea. Those able to leave have left. Bram Mannheim has stayed and is looking after his ill father. Twenty years ago Bram, who grew up in Amsterdam, was a well-known university teacher in Princeton. When Bennie, his four- year-old son, vanished into thin air, his life collapsed; and with it Bram's marriage, his career, and his self-confidence. In Tel Aviv he runs a support service helping parents track down their disappeared children. Then a new series of suicide bombings shock the small country. And Bram discovers that an atrocious secret lurks behind the attacks which at the same time, however, gives him hope that Bennie may still be alive. A serious subject matter, brilliantly and poignantly told.
»He can tell a story like hardly any other writer in Western Europe.«
Literaturen, Berlin
»A depiction of Israel's near future. By a novelist with a panoramic view!«
Trouw, Amsterdam
»A novel, broad in scope and audacious, which does not confine itself to one country or one continent. Instead, it takes a wider, international perspective.«
De Volkskrant, Amsterdam
»You want to read it all, and immediately.«
De Groene Amsterdammer
»In ›Right to Return‹ Leon de Winter has written a nightmarish and visionary novel of Israel. An impressive, sombre novel. A master is here at work.«
Die Welt, Berlin
»This novel is his masterpiece.«
Focus, Munich
»Leon de Winter's novel, which is as exciting as it is complex, is also a book about forbidden thoughts and self-delusion.«
Münchner Merkur