num_pages: 355
description: A young orphan smuggled out of Poland during World War II, poet Jakob Beer comes to understand the extraordinary power of language to destroy, restore, and witness as he struggles to cope with both grief and the healing of memory
language: English
title: Fugitive Pieces
titlecomplete: Fugitive Pieces
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, Canada, Literature, Holocaust, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, World War II
ratings_count: 15991
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: Thorndike Pr