Fugitive Pieces is a work of rare vision that is at once lyrical, sensual, profound. Later in life, as a translator and a poet, and now with the glorious Michaela, Jakob meets Ben, a young professor whose own legacies of the war kindle within him a fascination with the older man and his writing.
It is here that his loss gradually surfaces, as does the haunting question of his sister?s fate. As a young boy during the Second World War, Jakob Beer is rescued from the mud in Poland by an unlikely saviour, the scientist Athos Roussos, and he is taken to Greece, then, at war?s end, to Toronto. "Anne Michaels? spellbinding début novel has quickly become one of the most beloved and talked-about books of the decade.
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