This title was awarded the Fernando Jeno Prize. The translator, Dick Gerdes, won the Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for his translation of Diamela Eltit's "The Fourth World".

In 1944 the Germans arrived and Isacovici, his family, and every other Jew from his town were pushed into cattle cars and taken ever closer to the soot and smoke of Auschwitz. He became a man of ashes.