Description
The hunt for the great boar of Kalydon is re-enacted in the last days of World War II, only this time an SS officer is the quarry and Greek partisans the hunters. Their witness is a young Romanian Jew, finding refuge in the Greek mountains, who is inspired to re-write the story as a poem.
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New York Grove Press 2000
Pages
322
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James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Shortlist — Fiction — 2000)
Wingate Literary Prize (Shortlist — 2001)