During the years in Greece, when Jakob is forced to hide within his savior’s home, Athos fills the long hours with millennia of history, geology, geography, and literature. He is saved by Athos, a Greek geologist, who spirits Jakob away to a remote island in the Greek archipelago. Jakob’s family is slaughtered one winter night in 1940 the seven-year-old boy hides in a hollow of the wall, then escapes into his Polish city, burying himself in the mud of an archeological dig.
From the corner of a small house on a small island that juts like a bone from the skin of sea.”Įarly in her brooding, shadowy, aching novel, Anne Michaels sets out the central conflict of her principal character, Jakob Beer.
My deepest story must be told by a blind man, a prisoner of sound. “I did not witness the most important events of my life.
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