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Fugitive Pieces
Reader Score
78%
78% of readers
recommend this book
On its 25th anniversary arrives a new edition of Anne Michaels's #1 internationally bestselling and celebrated novel--its message and importance remaining as relevant today as ever. Winner of many awards including the Orange Prize and the Guardian Fiction Award, Fugitive Pieces is not only still one of the most beloved and most critically acclaimed books of our time, but also a novel of rare vision that is at once lyrical, sensual, and profound. 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.
Book Details
- Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
- Publish Date: Mar 3rd, 2009
- Pages: 312
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.03in - 5.26in - 0.86in - 0.65lb
- EAN: 9780771058820
- Categories: • Literary• Historical - General• Cultural Heritage
About the Author
ANNE MICHAELS' books have been translated into more than forty-five languages and have won dozens of international awards, including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Lannan Award for Fiction and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Americas. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and many other honours. She has been shortlisted for the Governor-General's Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, twice shortlisted for the Giller Prize and twice longlisted for the IMPAC Award. Her novel, Fugitive Pieces, was adapted as a feature film. From 2015 to 2019, she was Toronto's Poet Laureate. She lives in Canada. annemichaels.ca
Praise for this book
"It stands alone, a stunning testament to the shaping bonds of memory and of history...."
-London Free Press "Extraordinary....Michaels has dug deep and come up with treasure."
-Maclean's "This is a novel to lose yourself in; let the language pour over you, depositing its richness like waves lapping sand onto a beach."
-The Times (U.K.) "Fugitive Pieces again strongly reminds us why people write novels, why people should read them....Here is the real thing, literature."
-Richard Bachmann, A Different Drummer Books "Deserves to become a classic."
-San Francisco Chronicle "The most important book I have read for 40 years."
-John Berger, The Observer (U.K.) "Word by blessed word, it is a gorgeously written book aflame with the sub-zero cold of history and the passions of emotional comprehension."
-Boston Globe "Exquisitely fabricated, the words so precise, that one stands before it as if it were the Bayeux Tapestry, afraid to touch a single thread lest the entire chronicle unravel."
-Globe and Mail "From time to time a novel appears that shocks with its beauty, its integrity, its humanity....A stunning achievement."
-Rosemary Sullivan, author of The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out "Each page is alert with the grace and energy of a rare moral intelligence, expressing both love and shame for humanity....Like all great fiction, it seeks to fulfil the mind's yearning. There is not an idle word in its telling."
-Seán Virgo "The book is beautifully written...ike turbulent water disturbing what lies in the depths."
-Books in Canada "Ms. Michaels underscores the continuity of human experience, suggesting that just as we can inherit the pain and guilt of earlier generations, so too can we inherit understanding and beauty and grace...."
-New York Times Book Review "An extraordinary piece of work. Founded on great ambition and carried through fearlessly."
-The Guardian (U.K.) "It is one of the most important novels to come out of this country."
-Peter Oliva, Calgary Herald "She has the ability to take a reader's breath away with an image or a turn of phrase."
-The Gazette (Montreal) "Reading this profound, graceful book is an unforgettable emotional and esthetic experience."
-Kingston Whig-Standard
-London Free Press "Extraordinary....Michaels has dug deep and come up with treasure."
-Maclean's "This is a novel to lose yourself in; let the language pour over you, depositing its richness like waves lapping sand onto a beach."
-The Times (U.K.) "Fugitive Pieces again strongly reminds us why people write novels, why people should read them....Here is the real thing, literature."
-Richard Bachmann, A Different Drummer Books "Deserves to become a classic."
-San Francisco Chronicle "The most important book I have read for 40 years."
-John Berger, The Observer (U.K.) "Word by blessed word, it is a gorgeously written book aflame with the sub-zero cold of history and the passions of emotional comprehension."
-Boston Globe "Exquisitely fabricated, the words so precise, that one stands before it as if it were the Bayeux Tapestry, afraid to touch a single thread lest the entire chronicle unravel."
-Globe and Mail "From time to time a novel appears that shocks with its beauty, its integrity, its humanity....A stunning achievement."
-Rosemary Sullivan, author of The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out "Each page is alert with the grace and energy of a rare moral intelligence, expressing both love and shame for humanity....Like all great fiction, it seeks to fulfil the mind's yearning. There is not an idle word in its telling."
-Seán Virgo "The book is beautifully written...ike turbulent water disturbing what lies in the depths."
-Books in Canada "Ms. Michaels underscores the continuity of human experience, suggesting that just as we can inherit the pain and guilt of earlier generations, so too can we inherit understanding and beauty and grace...."
-New York Times Book Review "An extraordinary piece of work. Founded on great ambition and carried through fearlessly."
-The Guardian (U.K.) "It is one of the most important novels to come out of this country."
-Peter Oliva, Calgary Herald "She has the ability to take a reader's breath away with an image or a turn of phrase."
-The Gazette (Montreal) "Reading this profound, graceful book is an unforgettable emotional and esthetic experience."
-Kingston Whig-Standard