Fugitive Pieces Fugitive Pieces

Fugitive Pieces

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

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1997
February 25
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
6.5
MB

Customer Reviews

Hollandd3 ,

A GREAT READ

I have read many many books but this one is definitely in my top 5. Read it. You'll be glad you did. Can be emotionally draining but isn't that part of the reason we read novels in the first place?….to be entertained? Loved learning about the history and environment of Greece. I had no idea it was like that over there. At the heart of the book is an immensely enthralling love story. This book is well worth your time.

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