by Anne Michaels (Author)
Following the Nazi occupation of Poland, from the mud of a buried city, Jakob Beer, an orphaned Jewish boy, finds himself rescued by an unlikely saviour, the geologist and humanist Athos Roussos. Athos takes Jakob to his Greek-island home, where Jakob becomes his student. But the trauma of Jakob's early life refuses to leave him. Living forever in the shadow of the Holocaust, he must steel himself to excavate the horrors of his own history.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: 21st birthday celebratory ed
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 02 Jan 2007
ISBN 10: 0747590095
ISBN 13: 9780747590095
Book Overview: Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction and winner of the Guardian Fiction AwardPublished as part of the Bloomsbury 21st Birthday Celebrations Includes reading group guide
Prizes: Winner of Orange Youth Panel Prize 2010.