The Leper's Return - 1st Edition/1st Printing de Jecks, Michael - 1998

London: Headline. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0747221464 . A handsome first edition/first printing in Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket. Signed by author Michael Jecks directly on the title page; One winter afternoon in 1944, a man returns to his small town in Wales after being gone for thirteen years. The townspeople are both excited and apprehensive to see him, unsure of what to make of him. He is a leper, and everyone in the town knows it.The man has a story to tell. He tells of his experiences during World War II, when he was a prisoner of war in Japan. He tells of the brutality and the starvation he endured, and of the moment, shortly before he was released, when his captors offered him a choice between death and returning to the leper colony where he had been living before he was captured.The Leper's Return is a story of courage, resilience, and hope. It is a story of a man who has been broken but who has also been healed. It is a story of a town that banded together to support one of its own, and of a generation that was forced; 8vo; Signed by Author .