Fugitive Pieces
by Anne Michaels | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0771058837 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0771058837 Global Overview for this book
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From amazon:
"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. 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. After the war they emigrated together to Canada. 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.
Fugitive Pieces is a book about memory and forgetting. 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."
"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. 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. After the war they emigrated together to Canada. 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.
Fugitive Pieces is a book about memory and forgetting. 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."
Journal Entry 2 by crazy-book-lady at Bookcrossing Convention 2006 in Toronto, Ontario Canada on Saturday, April 22, 2006
Released 18 yrs ago (4/22/2006 UTC) at Bookcrossing Convention 2006 in Toronto, Ontario Canada
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On the "book buffet" table in the conference room at the Courtyard by Marriott.
On the "book buffet" table in the conference room at the Courtyard by Marriott.
Have read and heard only great things about this book. CBC radio talked about it a lot, so did Globe and Mail. Looking fwd to reading it.
Caught at Toronto BC Convention last week-end.
What a smorgasborg - or is that board? - of books. My arms were falling off by the time I got home. (I took the "Better Way" home on Sunday......)
Caught at Toronto BC Convention last week-end.
What a smorgasborg - or is that board? - of books. My arms were falling off by the time I got home. (I took the "Better Way" home on Sunday......)
OK, I've had this book hanging around the house (actually 2 houses) since 2006 and haven't read it yet. So, I am releasing it for someone else to read, and hopefully enjoy. Next run into Toronto, I'll drop it at a Little Free Library.
