This book is on the list of 1001 books to read before you die.


Synopsis:
It is just months before the Nazi occupation of Poland and from the mud of a buried city, Jakob Beer, an orphaned Jewish boy, finds himself rescued by an unlikely saviour. He is saved by the geologist and humanist Athos Roussos who takes him to his Greek island home where he becomes his student. But the trauma of Jakob's early life refuses to leave him. Living forever in the shadow of the Holocaust, although Jakob has escaped the most terrible fate of all, he must yet steel himself to excavate the horrors of his own history.

I can't say that I really loved this book and on reflection I wonder if it is a bit too cerebral for me.


Anyway, this was M on my A-Z of authors for 2008.

RELEASE NOTES:

On its way to a fellow BCUK Extra member who won it in the first ever Raiding Swap.

Apologies for not journalling this. I thought I had but when I checked the Books owed list it was still on there. I checked the shelf and I've had it since feb 08, but it did not show on my BC shelf.
Huge apologies for not JEing it sooner.

a hard to read book that I persevered with but that didn't 'live' for me.