Be Wolf

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Novelist and editor Wayne Tefs delivers a thrilling novel based on a real-life experience in Be Wolf: A True Account of the Survival of Reinhold Kaletsch. Reinhold Kaletsch was a German doctor and inventor with a passion for the Canadian Shield. Whenever possible, he escaped to his farm in northern Manitoba, relishing its severe beauty. Kaletsch had a taste for adventure, fulfilling his creed: a life without risks is one not worth living.

AUTHOR

Wayne Tefs

Wayne Tefs was born in Winnipeg and grew up in northwestern Ontario. He edited a number of anthologies and published nine novels and a work of non-fiction. His novel Moon Lake received the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction in 2000 and his novel Be Wolf won the 2007 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. Wayne Tefs died in 2014.