Fugitive Pieces

Michaels, Anne

ISBN 10: 0771058853 / ISBN 13: 9780771058851

Verlag: Mcclelland & Stewart, 2007

Beschreibung

New - Unread For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos Anne Michaels? Spellbinding Début Novel Has Quickly Become One Of The Most Beloved And Talked-About Books Of The Decade. 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. It Is Here That His Loss Gradually Surfaces, As Does The Haunting Question Of His Sister?S Fate. 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. Fugitive Pieces Is A Work Of Rare Vision That Is At Once Lyrical, Sensual, Profound. With Its Vivid Evocation Of Landscape And Character, Its Unique Excavation Of Memory And Time, It Is A Wholly Unforgettable Novel That Draws Us Into The Lives Of Its Characters With Compassion And Recognition.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001923

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Fugitive Pieces
• Verlag: Mcclelland & Stewart
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0771058853
• ISBN-13: 9780771058851
• Einband: Soft cover
• Zustand: New
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  • Canadian Fiction

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Inhaltsangabe

Anne Michaels’ spellbinding début novel has quickly become one of the most beloved and talked-about books of the decade. 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. It is here that his loss gradually surfaces, as does the haunting question of his sister’s fate. 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. Fugitive Pieces is a work of rare vision that is at once lyrical, sensual, profound. With its vivid evocation of landscape and character, its unique excavation of memory and time, it is a wholly unforgettable novel that draws us into the lives of its characters with compassion and recognition.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Anne Michaels is the author of three highly acclaimed poetry collections: The Weight of Oranges (1986), which won the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas; Miner’s Pond (1991), which received the Canadian Authors Association Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award and the Trillium Award (these two volumes were published in a single-volume edition in 1997); and Skin Divers (1999).

Fugitive Pieces (1996) is Anne Michaels’ multi-award-winning, internationally bestselling first novel. In Canada, it was #1, and on the national bestseller list for more than two years. The literary prizes the novel has garnered to date are: In Canada, the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award; the City of Toronto Book Award; the Martin & Beatrice Fischer Award; the Trillium Book Award; and an Award of Merit from Heritage Toronto. In the U.K., the Guardian Fiction Award; the Jewish Quarterly Prize for Fiction; and the Orange Prize for Fiction. In the U.S., the Harold Ribalow Award and a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. And in Italy, Giuseppe Acerbi Literary Award.

Anne Michaels lives in Toronto, where she is working on her next novel.