- Audiobook
- 2021
- 8 hrs 26 mins
- Bloomsbury Publishing
Title
Fugitive Pieces
Description
Bloomsbury presents Fugitive Pieces written and read by Anne Michaels.
**Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction**
'This is a novel to lose yourself in' The Times
'Essential reading' Spectator
'Extraordinarily magical' New York Times
'The most important book I have read for forty years' Observer
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Athos and I stood together on deck and looked across the water at the bright city. From this distance no one would guess the turmoil that had torn apart Greece … The sea began to darken, and Athens, glowing in the distance, seemed to float on the horizon like a bright ship.
Jakob Beer is seven years old when he is rescued from the ruins of a buried village in Nazi-occupied Poland. He is the only one of his family to have survived the invasion. Adopted by his saviour, the Greek geologist Athos, Jakob must steel himself to excavate the horrors of his own history.
A novel of astounding beauty and wisdom, Fugitive Pieces is a profound meditation on the resilience of the human spirit and love's ability to restore even the most damaged of hearts.
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Product details
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Title:
Fugitive Pieces
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Language:
EN
ISBN Audio:
9781526640888
Publication date:
May 10, 2021
Keywords:
orange women's prize winningNazi occupation holocaustSecond world war PolandHitler Germany Polish resistanceClassic literary prize winningfiction about theSchindler's ListJohn BoyneThe Boy in the Striped PyjamasRabbit FenceSon of SaulAnne FrankLosing the DeadEast West StreetThe Readerall we sawfugitive pieceswinter vaultcorrespondencesthe adventures of miss petitfourliteraryaward winner
Duration
8 hrs 26 mins
Product type
AUDIO
Explicit:
No
Audio drama:
No
Unabridged:
Yes
About the author:
Anne Michaels is the author of three collections of poetry: The Weight of Oranges, which won the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas; Miner's Pond, which won the Canadian Authors Association Award; and Skin Divers. Her first novel, Fugitive Pieces, was published by Bloomsbury in 1997 to worldwide acclaim. It won the Orange Prize and the Guardian First Book Award among others, and was made into a major film. She is also the author of another novel, The Winter Vault, Correspondences: A Poem and Portraits, a collaboration with the acclaimed artist and writer Bernice Eisenstein, and a book for children, The Adventures of Miss Petitfour and Her Cats. Anne Michaels' work has been translated into over forty languages. She lives in Toronto, and in October 2015 was named the fifth Toronto Poet Laureate.