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| Title | : | Fugitive Pieces |
| Author | : | Anne Michaels |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
| Published | : | May 26th 1998 by Vintage (first published May 11th 1996) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Canada. War. World War II. Holocaust. Novels |
Anne Michaels
Paperback | Pages: 304 pages Rating: 3.93 | 13544 Users | 1134 Reviews
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A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner 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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| Original Title: | Fugitive Pieces |
| ISBN: | 0679776591 (ISBN13: 9780679776598) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Guardian Fiction Award (1997), Orange Prize for Fiction (1997), Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (1996), Premio letterario Giuseppe Acerbi (2001), Trillium Book Award (1997) Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize for Fiction (1998) |
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Ratings: 3.93 From 13544 Users | 1134 ReviewsCritique Appertaining To Books Fugitive Pieces
2 Stars - Okay bookTo say that I was underwhelmed by this book would be a fair assessment. I did not connect to anything in this book. The story sounded promising but ultimately fell flat.The structure seemed similar to a stream of consciousness and it did not work for me. It felt disjointed and confusing. Maybe I'm missing something but I think this style and form detracts from the story. Reading it was exhausting and slightly annoying. The writing itself isn't great. It's not that the writingThis novel often reminded me of what a brilliant accomplishment Virginia Woolfs The Waves is. There are parallels. The piecing together of shards, of fugitive pieces, the deployment of one narrative to unravel another, in an attempt to complete biography. Its not, of course, as good as The Waves few novels are!The first part of the novel is narrated by Jakob Beer. He is seven when his parents are murdered by Nazi soldiers. His beloved sister, Bella is abducted and will become the ghost that
it seems to be something of a goodreads sin to give this book any fewer than four stars. and were i rating it solely on the beauty of its language, it would be an easy five-star book. but as a novel, it missed the mark for me somewhat, so it is really just a high-three for me. i know - blasphemer!the poetry-as-novel thing can be a truly wonderful beast, or it can leave the reader wanting more - more story, more impact, more cohesion. reading this book made me long to re-read Justine, which is an
This is a reflection on love and loss in the context of the holocaust and those who survived. Jakob is rescued when seven years old (his family has been arrested by the Nazis)by Athos, a Greek archealogist; who takes him home and brings him up. You are told about Jakob's death at the very beginning of the book, aged 60 with his young wife. The story begins in Poland, then to Greece, Canada and back to Greece where Jakob meets the love of his life.Anne Michaels is a poet and the language and
The story itself is straight forward and easy to follow....( not 'all' characters are developed fully), but the overall plot - and the depth of the plot is clear....beautiful in its ways....and powerful. The lyrical crafting is luminous.,Jakob Beer's parents and sister, Bella, were killed in his home --victims of the Nazi reign in Europe. Jakob is now an orphan....at age 7. He flees into the marshes and forests in Poland and meets a Greek Geologist, Athos Roussos who takes pity on him -and
Sometimes (not always) it helps to persevere. Around page 150 I tended to close this book. Okay, the language was imaginative and poetic, but what was the story really about? And then it suddenly started to speak and gradually I realised what Michaels probably wanted to offer: pieces of our own past, for which we are on the run, or which themselves flee from us and with which we want or need to come to terms with. In this case it revolves largely (two-thirds of the book) around the story of
Finally, I have finished this one. I loved the cover and a quick flick through excited me because the writing was poetic and lyrical and the prologue about lost manuscripts from people who wrote about the holocaust was tantalising.The story is about a young Jewish boy, Jacob Beer who, while hiding, witnesses the slaughter of his parents and the abduction of his sister, presumably for the death camps, by the Nazi police in Poland. He survives living in the marshland outside the town until he is
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