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.
- ISBN10 0747529396
- ISBN13 9780747529392
- Publish Date 6 February 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 April 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English