1997 Guardian Fiction Prize
1997 Women's Prize For Fiction
The stories of two men from different generations whose lives have been transformed by war. A young boy, Jakob Beer, is rescued from the mud of a buried Polish city during World War II and taken to an island in Greece by an unlikely saviour, the scientist/humanist Athos Roussos.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Genre: Literary Fiction
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