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Fugitive Pieces

By Anne Michaels

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| Paperback | 9780771058837

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Anne Michaels’ spellbinding début novel has quickly become one of the most beloved and talked-about books of the decade. As a young boy during the Second World War, Jakob Beer is rescued from the mud in Poland by an unlikely saviour, the scientist Athos Roussos, and he is taken to GreeContinue

Anne Michaels’ spellbinding début novel has quickly become one of the most beloved and talked-about books of the decade. As a young boy during the Second World War, Jakob Beer is rescued from the mud in Poland by an unlikely saviour, the scientist Athos Roussos, and he is taken to Greece, then, at war’s end, to Toronto. It is here that his loss gradually surfaces, as does the haunting question of his sister’s fate. Later in life, as a translator and a poet, and now with the glorious Michaela, Jakob meets Ben, a young professor whose own legacies of the war kindle within him a fascination with the older man and his writing. Fugitive Pieces is a work of rare vision that is at once lyrical, sensual, profound. With its vivid evocation of landscape and character, its unique excavation of memory and time, it is a wholly unforgettable novel that draws us into the lives of its characters with compassion and recognition.

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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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