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Fugitive pieces

Jakob Beer is rescued from the mud of a buried Polish city during World War II and taken to a Greek island by the humanist Athos Roussos. They spend the last years of the Occupation in Athos' house, a precious refuge made lavish with art. After the war, Athos accepts an invitation to the University of Toronto's new Geography department, and Jakob learns the terrain of the city just as he discovers the insistent nature of the layered past. His loss surfaces in all its complexity as does the haunting question of his sister's fate.

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  • "Seven-year-old Jakob Beer is rescued from the Nazis and spirited to safety in Greece until the war ends. Decades later, after growing up in Toronto, Jakob meets Ben, a young professor whose parents survived the Holocaust. The two men's stories intertwine in this exploration of grief and redemption."
  • "Jakob Beer is rescued from the mud of a buried Polish city during World War II and taken to a Greek island by the humanist Athos Roussos. They spend the last years of the Occupation in Athos' house, a precious refuge made lavish with art. After the war, Athos accepts an invitation to the University of Toronto's new Geography department, and Jakob learns the terrain of the city just as he discovers the insistent nature of the layered past. His loss surfaces in all its complexity as does the haunting question of his sister's fate."@en
  • "In 1940 Poland, seven-year-old Jakob Beer buries himself to hide from roving Nazi soldiers who have just murdered his family. Consequently, he is rescued by a Greek geologist who attempts to shelter him from the horrors of the Holocaust."@en
  • "In 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. His name is Jakob Beer. He is only seven years old. And although by all rights he should have shared the fate of the other Jews in his village, he has not only survived but been rescued by a Greek geologist, who does not recognize the boy as human until he begins to cry. With this electrifying image, Anne Michaels ushers us into her rapturously acclaimed novel of loss, memory, history, and redemption. As Michaels follows Jakob across two continents, she lets us witness his transformation from a half-wild casualty of the Holocaust to an artist who extracts meaning from its abyss."@en
  • "Jakob Beer, rescued during the Second World War and taken to refuge in Greece by Athos Roussos, follows Athos to Toronto, where he begins his career as a translator and poet, and later he meets Ben, whose life is changed because of Jakob's writing and Ben's own legacies of the war."
  • "Jakob Beer is rescued from the mud of a buried Polish city during World War Two and taken to a Greek Island by the humanist Athos Roussos. They spend the last years of the Occupation in Athos's house, a precarious refuge made lavish with art. After the war, Athos accepts an invitation to the University of Toronto's new Geography department, and Jakob learns the terrain of this city, just as he discovers the insistent nature of the layered past. His loss surfaces in all its complexity as does the haunting question of his sister's fate."@en
  • "In 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. His name is Jakob Beer. He is only seven years old. And although by all rights he should have shared the fate of the other Jews in his village, he has not only survived but been rescued by a Greek geologist, who does not recognize the boy as human until he begins to cry... With this electrifying image, Anne Michaels ushers us into her rapturously acclaimed novel of loss, memory, history, and redemption. As Michaels follows Jakob across two continents, she lets us witness his transformation from a half-wild casualty of the Holocaust to an artist who extracts meaning from its abyss.Filled with mysterious symmetries and rendered in heart-stopping prose, Fugitive Pieces is a triumphant work, a book that should not so much be read as it should be surrendered to."@en
  • "Tells the story of Jakob Beer who is rescued during WWII from a Polish city by Athos Roussos, a Greek humanist. After the war is over, Athos and Jakob move to Toronto where Jakob begins to question his sister's fate."
  • "During the Second World War, countless manuscripts - diaries, memoirs, eyewitness accounts - were lost or destroyed. Other stories are concealed in memory, neither written nor spoken. Still others are recovered, by circumstance alone. Poet Jakob Beer, who was also a translator of posthumous writing from the war, was struck and killed by a car in 1993, at age sixty. Shortly before his death, Beer had begun to write his memoirs, opening that part of himself long since shut down against his knowledge of the past."@en
  • "A tale of Holocaust survival whose protagonist is Jakob Beer, a Jewish boy in Poland. He is saved from death by a Greek scientist who takes him home to his island, where Beer develops an interest in archeology. He describes the way the Nazis manipulated archeology to prove the superiority of the Aryan race."@en
  • "Jakob Beer, rescued during the Second World War and taken to refuge in Greece by Athos Roussos, follows Athos to Toronto, where he begins his career as a translator and poet. When he is sixty, Jakob meets Ben, a young professor, whose life is changed because of Jakob's writing and Ben's own legacies of the war."
  • "Jakob Beer, rescued during the Second World War and taken to refuge in Greece by Athos Roussos, follows Athos to Toronto, where he begins his career as a translator and poet. When he is sixty, Jakob meets Ben, a young professor, whose life is changed because of Jakob's writing and Ben's own legacies of the war."@en
  • "In 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. His name is Jakob Beer. He is only seven years old. And although by all rights he should have shared the fate of the other Jews in his village, he has not only survived but been rescued by a Greek geologist, who does not recognize the boy as human until he begins to cry. With this electrifying image, Anne Michaels ushers us into her rapturously acclaimed novel of loss, memory, history, and redemption. As Michaels follows Jakob across two continents, she lets us witness his transformation from a half-wild casualty of the Holocaust to an artist who extracts meaning from its abyss.Filled with mysterious symmetries and rendered in heart-stopping prose, Fugitive Pieces is a triumphant work, a book that should not so much be read as it should be surrendered to."@en

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  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "War stories"@en
  • "Audiobooks, Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Talking books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en

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  • "Fugitive pieces"
  • "Fugitive pieces"@en
  • "Fugitive Pieces"@en

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