New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel by this award-winning Canadian poet, one which "tells the interlocking stories of three men of different generations whose lives are transformed by the events and shifting effects of the same war. At its center is poet Jakob Beer: traumatically orphaned as a young boy during the Second World war, rescued from the mud of a buried Polish city and secreted to a Greek island by Athos Roussos, scientist, scholar, and, above all, humanist." SIGNED on the title page. Winner of many awards - Orange Prize for Fiction, Guardian Fiction Prize and more. Basis for the 2007 film of the same name. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-67945439X.