The release date for the English version of 'Fugitive Pieces' by
Anne Michaels is May 1998. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Winner of the Guardian Fiction Award Winner of the Lannan Literary Fiction Award A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A youngster breaks out of the dirt in 1940 in a Polish city devastated by war, where he had hidden himself to avoid the troops who had killed his family. He goes by Jacob Beer. Only seven years old, that is. Even though he should have, by all rights, met the same end as the other Jews in his community, the kid has not only survived but also been saved by a Greek geologist, who does not identify him as human until he starts crying. Anne Michaels introduces us to her critically acclaimed work about memory, grief, history, and redemption with this powerful picture.
Following Jakob throughout two continents, Michaels shows us how he changed from a half-mad victim of the Holocaust to an artist who finds meaning in its ruins. Fugitive Pieces is a triumphant piece, one that is best experienced by surrendering oneself to its heart-stopping words and unfathomable symmetries.