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Fugitive Pieces
- Author
- Anne Michaels
- Narrator
- Anne Michaels
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 11 May 2021
- Run Time
- 8 hours 26 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
**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.
Critics Review
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Monumental ... Fugitive Pieces is the most important book I have read for forty years
Observer
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This is a novel to lose yourself in; let the language pour over you, depositing its richness like waves lapping sand onto a beach. Michaels is a novelist of unusual and compelling power
The Times
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Essential reading, both for its exceptional literary craft and for its exemplary and inspiring humanity
Spectator
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All except a handful of contemporary novels are dwarfed by its reach, its compassion, its wisdom ... A book to read many times
Independent
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Extraordinarily magical
New York Times
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Lovely ... Musical and magical ... Put this book alongside The English Patient
Chicago Tribune
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This extraordinarily beautiful novel is a world. A book miraculously created because it mends the hopeless and dances with loss. Trust and read it
John Berger
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An utterly mesmerizing novel told from the core of a poet's soul focusing upon our very prosaic world. It does what all great novels do: illuminate through the lights of language and intelligence the heart of a hitherto hidden human landscape
Chaim Potok
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Anne Michaels has created a world of stunning, heartbreaking clarity where even the unspeakable is captured in the light-web of her words. She is a superb poet, a breath-stopping storyteller
Cristina Garcia
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Searing the mind with stunning images while seducing with radiant prose, this brilliant first novel is a story of damaged lives and the indestructibility of the human spirit. The novel will make readers yearn to share it with others, to read sentences and entire passages out loud, to debate its message, to acknowledge its wisdom
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Details
- Author
- Anne Michaels
- Narrator
- Anne Michaels
- Duration
- 8 hours 26 minutes
- Release Date
- 11 May 2021
- ISBN
- 9781526640888
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Historical fiction, The Holocaust
Synopsis
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_________________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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