Fugitive Pieces: A Novel (WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION)

Fugitive Pieces: A Novel (WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION) - Paperback

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Fugitive Pieces: A Novel (WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION) - Paperback

Fugitive Pieces: A Novel (WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION) - Paperback

by Anne Michaels
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by Anne Michaels (Author)

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.

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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, Jakob Beer, a seven-year-old boy, bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from Nazi soldiers who have killed his family. Though he should have died with his family, he has not only survived but been rescued by a Greek geologist. With this electrifying backdrop, Anne Michaels propels us into her rapturously acclaimed novel of loss, memory, history, and redemption. Michaels lets us witness Jakob's transformation from a half-wild casualty of the Holocaust to an artis who extracts meaning from the abyss. Filled with mysterious symmetries and rendered in heart-stopping prose, Fugitive Pieces is a triumphant work.

Author Biography

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.

Number of Pages: 304
Dimensions: 0.64 x 8.02 x 5.2 IN
Publication Date: May 26, 1998
Award: Guardian First Book Award (1997)
Award: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (1997)
ISBN9780679776598
Author Anne Michaels
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMay 1998
LanguageENG- English
Pages304
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Anne Michaels's books have been translated into more than forty-five languages and have won dozens of international awards, including the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. She has been short-listed for the Governor General's Literary Award and the Griffin Poetry Prize, twice shortlisted for the Giller Prize, and twice long-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her novel Fugitive Pieces was adapted into a feature film. From 2015 to 2019, she was Toronto's poet laureate. She lives in Canada.

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