num_pages: 3
description: Anne Michaels’s spellbinding novel has quickly become one of the most beloved and talked-about books of the decade. At the age of seven during the Second World War, Jakob Beer is rescued from the mud of a buried Polish city and spirited to safety in Greece. There, in the seclusion of an unlikely savior, he spends the last years of the Occupation in precarious refuge. Decades later, after moving to North America, Jakob meets Ben, a young professor whose own connection to the wounding legacies of war kindle within him a fascination with the older man and his writing. An unforgettable exploration of grief and redemption, Fugitive Pieces draws us into the lives of its characters with compassion and recognition.
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: 15992
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: BTC Audiobooks