![]() ![]() ![]() "Fugitive Pieces is an utterly mesmerizing novel told from the core of a poet's soul focusing upon our very prosaic world. ![]() She is a superb poet, a breath-stopping storyteller." "Anne Michaels has created a world of stunning, heartbreaking clarity where even the unspeakable is captured in the light-web of her words. A book miraculously created because it mends the hopeless and dances with loss. "This extraordinarily beautiful novel is a world. How is it possible to love the living when our hearts are still with the dead? What is the difference between what historical fact tells us and what we remember? More than that, the novel is a meditation on the power of language to free our souls and allow us to find our own destinies. Jakob's story is told through diaries discovered by Ben, a young man whose parents are Holocaust survivors and who is a vessel for their memories just as Jakob is the bearer of his own.įugitive Pieces is a book about memory and forgetting. After the war they emigrated together to Canada. Beer himself was found and smuggled out of Poland by Athos Roussos, a Greek archaeologist who carried him back to Greece and kept him there in precarious safety. This is the story of Jakob Beer, a Polish Jew, translator, and poet who, as a child, witnessed his family's slaughter at the hands of the Nazis. She turns her hand to fiction in an impressive debut novel, Fugitive Pieces. Anne Michaels, an accomplished poet, has already published two collections of poetry in her native Canada. ![]()
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