Fugitive Pieces

"Time is a blind guide." So the book begins, in the voice of Jakob Beer, a seven-year-old boy in Poland who hides in a cupboard behind the wallpaper while soldiers murder his parents, and who never learns what became of his sister Bella. He flees into the forest and buries himself in the mud of an archaeological dig at Biskupin, where a Greek geologist, Athos Roussos, finds him and smuggles him home to the island of Zakynthos.