This first novel from an award-winning poet -- a #1 best-seller in Canada -- is certain to propel her into the front ranks of our very best practitioners of contemporary fiction.
It is a story of World War II as remembered and imagined by one of its survivors: a poet named Jakob Beer, traumatically orphaned as a young child and smuggled out of Poland, first to a Greek island (where he will return as an adult), and later to Toronto. It is the story of how, over his lifetime, Jakob learns the power of language -- to destroy, to omit, to obliterate, but also to restore and to conjure, witness and tell -- as he comes to understand and experience what was lost to him and of what is possible for him to regain.
Profoundly moving, brilliantly written -- as sensual and lyric as it is emotionally resonant -- Fugitive Pieces delves into the most difficult workings of the human heart and mind: the grief and healing of remembrance. It is a first novel of astonishing achievement.
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<b>Anne Michaels</b> teaches creative writing in Toronto. Her two collections of poetry are <b>The Weight of Oranges</b> (1986), which won the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas, and <b>Miner's Pond</b> (1991), which received the Canadian Authors Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Award. <b>Fugitive Pieces</b> is her first novel.
ovel from an award-winning poet -- a #1 best-seller in Canada -- is certain to propel her into the front ranks of our very best practitioners of contemporary fiction.<br><br>It is a story of World War II as remembered and imagined by one of its survivors: a poet named Jakob Beer, traumatically orphaned as a young child and smuggled out of Poland, first to a Greek island (where he will return as an adult), and later to Toronto. It is the story of how, over his lifetime, Jakob learns the power of language -- to destroy, to omit, to obliterate, but also to restore and to conjure, witness and tell -- as he comes to understand and experience what was lost to him and of what is possible for him to regain.<br><br>Profoundly moving, brilliantly written -- as sensual and lyric as it is emotionally resonant -- <b>Fugitive Pieces</b> delves into the most difficult workings of the human heart and mind: the grief and healing of remembrance. It is a first novel of astonishing
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