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Fugitive Pieces

A Novel

A Novel

By Anne Michaels

By Anne Michaels

By Anne Michaels

By Anne Michaels

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Part of Vintage International

Paperback $17.00

May 26, 1998 | 304 Pages

Ebook $11.99

Dec 24, 2008 | 304 Pages

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    About Fugitive Pieces

    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.

    About Fugitive Pieces

    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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    Also by Anne Michaels

    The Adventures of Miss Petitfour
    All We Saw
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    The Winter Vault
    Poems
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    Also by Anne Michaels

    The Adventures of Miss Petitfour
    All We Saw
    Correspondences
    The Winter Vault
    Poems
    See all books by Anne Michaels

    About Anne Michaels

    ANNE MICHAELS is a novelist and poet. Her books are translated into more than forty-five languages and have won dozens of international awards, including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and the Lannan Award for Fiction. Among many other honors… More about Anne Michaels

    About Anne Michaels

    ANNE MICHAELS is a novelist and poet. Her books are translated into more than forty-five languages and have won dozens of international awards, including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and the Lannan Award for Fiction. Among many other honors… More about Anne Michaels

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Vintage
    May 26, 1998 | 304 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679776598

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Vintage
    Dec 24, 2008 | 304 Pages | ISBN 9780307556295

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    Praise

    "Extraordinarily magical." –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

    "Lovely…musical and magical…. Put this book alongside The English Patient." —Chicago Tribune

    "Word by blessed word, it is a gorgeously written book: aflame with the subzero cold of history and the passions of emotional comprehension." —Boston Globe

    "Fugitive Pieces deserves to become a classic." —San Francisco Chronicle

    Awards

    Harold U. Ribalow Prize WINNER 1998

    Orange Prize WINNER 1997

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