Fugitive Pieces

by Anne Michaels | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0747534969 Global Overview for this book
Registered by L1nda of Newcastle, New South Wales Australia on 8/14/2008
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Journal Entry 1 by L1nda from Newcastle, New South Wales Australia on Thursday, August 14, 2008
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.

Journal Entry 2 by L1nda at Newcastle, New South Wales Australia on Saturday, November 30, 2013

Released 10 yrs ago (12/6/2013 UTC) at Newcastle, New South Wales Australia

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Journal Entry 3 by lakelady2282 at Lake Macquarie, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, April 16, 2014
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Journal Entry 4 by lakelady2282 at The Esplanade in Warners Bay, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, April 16, 2014

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Journal Entry 5 by lakelady2282 at The Esplanade in Warners Bay, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Released 9 yrs ago (4/16/2014 UTC) at The Esplanade in Warners Bay, New South Wales Australia

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Journal Entry 6 by CronicBadger at Edgeworth, New South Wales Australia on Sunday, July 20, 2014
My eyes made contact with its intriguing cover as it sat quietly on the cement floor at the Warners Bay rotunda. It followed me home.

As I reached my front porch I appraised its back cover. The pedigree of the reviewers quoted there convinced me to hold open the front door and gesture inside.

The first pages contained positive comments and praise. Four pages - an indication the novel might challenge its reader, and require some effort to get the best out of it.

So now it sits, expectantly, with the other books in my ""choose one of these next" pile. I enjoy a challenge.

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