Jakob's Colours

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Inspired by the lost voices of the Romany Holocaust this heartbreaking & tender novel will appeal to readers who loved Sophie's Choice Schindler's Ark & The Book Thief One of the Independent's TOP TEN SPRING PICKS' Remarkable
- brave big-hearted & beautifully written' Andrew Miller author of the Costa Award winner PUREAustria 1944 Jakob a gypsy boy
- half Roma half Yenish
- runs as he has been told to do With shoes of sack cloth still bloodstained with another's blood a stone clutched in one hand a small wooden box in the other He runs blindly full of fear empty of hope For hope lies behind him in a green field with a tree that stands shaped like a Y He knows how to read the land the sky When to seek shelter when not He has grown up directing himself with the wind & the shadows They are familiar to him It is the loneliness that is not He has never until this time been so alone' Don't be afraid Jakob' his father has told him his voice weak & wavering ' See the colours my boy' he has whispered So he does Rusted ochre from a mossy bough Steely white from the sap of the youngest tree On & on Jakob runs Spanning from one world war to another taking us across England Switzerland & Austria Jakob's Colours is about the painful legacies passed down from one generation to another finding hope where there is no hope & colour where there is no colour