Mr Bakopoulos's well-told debut novel is the first-person story of the coming-of-age of one of the sons, Michael Smolij (16 when his father vanished) and his friends.

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The publisher describes the novel as the coming-of-age story of a gifted young man whose search for meaning leads him to New York, England, Paris and a mission patrolling the demilitarized zone in Korea.

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