Levkas man W. W. Norton and Company A group of children are

A group of children are treated like gods

providing the soundtrack to so many childhoods

this is an adventure story in the classic tradition

executed with a single shot to the back of the head

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Levkas man W. W. Norton and Company A group of children areWhen his parents died, Paul was sent to Amsterdam to live with his mothers old lover, the eccentric archaeologist Pieter Van der Voort. Paul became a man in that cramped, strange house, cooped up with skeletons, fossils, and his increasingly mad guardian, who was obsessed with the search for the origins of man. Finally, Paul can take no more. He hops a freighter and spends eight years at sea before returning home to find Van der Voort goneand a