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Fugitive Pieces

By Anne Michaels

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| Hardcover | 9780747529392

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This first novel from an award-winning poet -- a #1 best-seller in Canada -- is certain to propel her into the front ranks of our very best practitioners of contemporary fiction.

It is a story of World War II as remembered and imagined by one of its survivors: a poet named Jakob Beer, traumatContinue

This first novel from an award-winning poet -- a #1 best-seller in Canada -- is certain to propel her into the front ranks of our very best practitioners of contemporary fiction.

It is a story of World War II as remembered and imagined by one of its survivors: a poet named Jakob Beer, traumatically orphaned as a young child and smuggled out of Poland, first to a Greek island (where he will return as an adult), and later to Toronto.  It is the story of how, over his lifetime, Jakob learns the power of language -- to destroy, to omit, to obliterate, but also to restore and to conjure, witness and tell -- as he comes to understand and experience what was lost to him and of what is possible for him to regain.

Profoundly moving, brilliantly written -- as sensual and lyric as it is emotionally resonant -- Fugitive Pieces delves into the most difficult workings of the human heart and mind: the grief and healing of remembrance.  It is a first novel of astonishing achievement.

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  • 'Fugitive Pieces' by Anne Michaels

    Sometimes I find myself unexpectedly reading one novel after another that share similar themes. I think this is what you call serendipity. Or maybe it's sheer coincidence. But whatever the case, I couldn't help but compare Anne Michaels' 1996 novel F ... (read full critics)

    readingmatters published on Tue, 28 Sep 2010

  • Fugitive Pieces

    Michaels' own introduction tells us that the poet Jakob Beer was struck and killed by a car in Athens, 1933. His wife was also killed. They had no children. "A man's experience of war," Jakob once wrote, "never ends with the war. A man's work, like h ... (read full critics)

    bookgroup published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

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  • A brilliant book, at times disturbing, shows the cruelty of war and the way memories haunt us using lyrical prose and words carefully handpicked. An incredible story, characters and points of view beautifully crafted and a novel that reads like a long poem, travelling you in a journey of words and p ... (continue)

    A brilliant book, at times disturbing, shows the cruelty of war and the way memories haunt us using lyrical prose and words carefully handpicked. An incredible story, characters and points of view beautifully crafted and a novel that reads like a long poem, travelling you in a journey of words and people's stories!

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  • It will touch your heart

    A long meditation on love, survival, and everything inbetween. There is so much beauty in this book, it hurts.

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    Leah said on Sep 8, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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