Fugitive Pieces [electronic resource]
Michaels, Anne2009
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Athos and I stood together on deck and looked across the water at the bright city. From this distance no one would guess the turmoil that had torn apart Greece ... The sea began to darken, and Athens, glowing in the distance, seemed to float on the horizon like a bright ship.
Jakob Beer is seven years old when he is rescued from the ruins of a buried village in Nazi-occupied Poland. He is the only one of his family to have survived the invasion. Adopted by his saviour, the Greek geologist Athos, Jakob must steel himself to excavate the horrors of his own history.
A novel of astounding beauty and wisdom, Fugitive Pieces is a profound meditation on the resilience of the human spirit and love's ability to restore even the most damaged of hearts.
Main title:
Fugitive Pieces [electronic resource] / Anne Michaels
Author:
Michaels, Anne, Author
Work:
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Biography/History:
Anne Michaels was born in Toronto in 1958. She was educated at Toronto University where she continues to teach as an adjunct professor of creative writing. Her first volume of poems, The Weight of Oranges, was published to great acclaim in 1986 when it won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Americas. Fugitive Pieces, her first novel, has been published in over thirty countries and has won many international awards, including both the Orange Prize and the Guardian Fiction Award when it was published in 1997. Anne Michaels has published two other books of poetry, the award-winning Miner's Pond and Skin Divers. Her latest novel is The Winter Vault.
Awards:
Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (Scotiabank Giller)
ISBN:
9781408805688
Language:
English
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BRN:
355722