- ISBN: 9780754001348 | 0754001342
- Cover: Audio CD
- Copyright: 6/1/1998
Young Jakob Beer is rescued from Poland during World War II and taken to a Greek island by scientist and humanist, Athos Roussos. They spend the last years of the war in the house of Athos, a precarious refuge of poetry anti art. After the war, Athos leaves for a position in the University of Toronto's new Geography department. But for Jakob, the war has not yet ended; for he is unaware of his sister's fate...