Fugitive Pieces
Anne Michaels' spellbinding début novel has quickly become one of the most beloved and talked-about books of the decade. As a young boy during the Second World War, Jakob Beer is rescued from the mud in Poland by an unlikely saviour, the scientist Athos Roussos, and he is taken to Greece, then, at war's end, to Toronto. It is here that his loss gradually surfaces, as does the haunting question of his sister's fate. Later in life, as a translator and a poet, and now with the glorious Michaela, Jakob meets Ben, a young professor whose own legacies of the war kindle within him a fascination with the older man and his writing. Fugitive Pieces is…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-55199-391-1
- EAN: 9781551993911
- Produktnummer: 15723804
- Verlag: McClelland & Stewart
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 312 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'980 KB
Über den Autor
ANNE MICHAELS is the author of the multiple-prizewinning novel Fugitive Pieces, which was made into a major motion picture, and a second novel, The Winter Vault, which was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Trillium Book Award, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and a nominee for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She is also the author of several highly acclaimed poetry volumes, including, most recently, All We Saw. Her work has been translated into more than forty-five languages.
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