description: "Extraordinarily magical...fierce, deeply unsettling". -- The New York TimesPublished to rapturous acclaim, this fiercely concentrated and beautifully written novel is a story of unspeakable loss and unhoped-for redemption, of history and memory. It is the story of Jakob Beer, a Polish Jew who at the age of seven sees his parents murdered in the Holocaust, buries himself alive, and is resurrected by a Greek scientist who sees the starving child burst from the mud.As Jakob flees across Europe and America, he is transformed from a half-wild survivor into a scholar and translator who extracts meaning from the unfathomable horror of our time. Filled with mysterious symmetries and rendered in heart-stopping prose, Fugitive Pieces is a triumphant work of the literary and spiritual imagination."Word by blessed word, it is a gorgeously written book: aflame with the subzero cold of history and the passions of emotional comprehension". -- Boston Globe"Lovely...musical and magical.... Put this book alongside The English Patient". -- Chicago Tribune
language: English
title: Fugitive Pieces with Reading Group Guide
titlecomplete: Fugitive Pieces with Reading Group Guide
genres: Historical, Literature, Literary Fiction, World War II, Novels, Holocaust, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Canada
ratings_count: 15986
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Guardian Fiction Award, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Scotiabank Giller Prize, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Premio letterario Giuseppe Acerbi, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Trillium Book Award, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage Books USA