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Fugitive Pieces: A Novel (WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION) -- Anne Michaels, Paperback
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Winner of the Lannan Literary Fiction Award
Winner of the Guardian Fiction Award In 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. His name is Jakob Beer. He is only seven years old. And although by all rights he should have shared the fate of the other Jews in his village, he has not only survived but been rescued by a Greek geologist, who does not recognize the boy as human until he begins to cry. With this electrifying image, Anne Michaels ushers us into her rapturously acclaimed novel of loss, memory, history, and redemption. As Michaels follows Jakob across two continents, she lets us witness his transformation from a half-wild casualty of the Holocaust to an artist who extracts meaning from its abyss. Filled with mysterious symmetries and rendered in heart-stopping prose, Fugitive Pieces is a triumphant work, a book that should not so much be read as it should be surrendered to.
Author: Anne Michaels
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 05/26/1998
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.20w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780679776598
Award: Guardian First Book Award - Winner
Award: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - Winner
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 06/14/1998 pg. 32
Publishers Weekly 01/10/2000 pg. 59
Winner of the Lannan Literary Fiction Award
Winner of the Guardian Fiction Award In 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. His name is Jakob Beer. He is only seven years old. And although by all rights he should have shared the fate of the other Jews in his village, he has not only survived but been rescued by a Greek geologist, who does not recognize the boy as human until he begins to cry. With this electrifying image, Anne Michaels ushers us into her rapturously acclaimed novel of loss, memory, history, and redemption. As Michaels follows Jakob across two continents, she lets us witness his transformation from a half-wild casualty of the Holocaust to an artist who extracts meaning from its abyss. Filled with mysterious symmetries and rendered in heart-stopping prose, Fugitive Pieces is a triumphant work, a book that should not so much be read as it should be surrendered to.
Author: Anne Michaels
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 05/26/1998
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.20w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780679776598
Award: Guardian First Book Award - Winner
Award: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - Winner
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 06/14/1998 pg. 32
Publishers Weekly 01/10/2000 pg. 59
About the Author
Anne Michaels teaches creative writing in Toronto. Her two collections of poetry are The Weight of Oranges (1986), which won the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas, and Miner's Pond (1991), which received the Canadian Authors Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Award. Fugitive Pieces is her first novel.
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Anne Michaels, Fiction, Fiction - General, Historical, Jewish, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Literary, Paperback, Psychological fiction, Vintage International
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