num_pages: 294
description: This first novel from an award-winning poet -- a #1 best-seller in Canada -- is certain to propel her into the front ranks of our very best practitioners of contemporary fiction.It is a story of World War II as remembered and imagined by one of its a poet named Jakob Beer, traumatically orphaned as a young child and smuggled out of Poland, first to a Greek island (where he will return as an adult), and later to Toronto.  It is the story of how, over his lifetime, Jakob learns the power of language -- to destroy, to omit, to obliterate, but also to restore and to conjure, witness and tell -- as he comes to understand and experience what was lost to him and of what is possible for him to regain.Profoundly moving, brilliantly written -- as sensual and lyric as it is emotionally resonant -- Fugitive Pieces delves into the most difficult workings of the human heart and the grief and healing of remembrance.  It is a first novel of astonishing achievement.
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: 15997
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: Alfred A. Knopf