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Fugitive Pieces is a novel by the Canadian poet and novelist Anne Michaels. The story is divided into two sections. The first centers around Jakob Beer, a Polish Holocaust survivor, while the second involves a man named Ben, the son of two Holocaust survivors. It was first published in Canada in 1996 and was published in the United Kingdom the ...
- Anne Michaels
- 1996
Fugitive Pieces is a 2007 Canadian drama film directed by Jeremy Podeswa, who also adapted the film from the novel of the same name written by Anne Michaels. The film tells the story of Jakob Beer, who is orphaned in Poland during World War II and is saved by a Greek archeologist.
Anne Michaels. 3.92. 16,422 ratings1,432 reviews. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Winner of the Lannan Literary Fiction Award. Winner of the Guardian Fiction Award. 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.
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Jun 12, 2008 · Reviews. Living with oblivion. Roger Ebert June 12, 2008. Tweet. Alex (Rosamund Pike) tries to encourage her husband, Jakob (Stephen Dillane), a child of the Holocaust, to live in the present in Fugitive Pieces. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. To live with ghosts requires solitude.
Fugitive Pieces is a work of rare vision that is at once lyrical, sensual, profound. With its vivid evocation of landscape and character, its unique excavation of memory and time, it is a wholly unforgettable novel that draws us into the lives of its characters with compassion and recognition.
- Paperback
Jun 12, 2009 · Fri 12 Jun 2009 19.01 EDT. For the first time, the Guardian book club's monthly discussion with our featured author took place away from home. On a balmy May evening at the Hay festival, Anne...
Summaries. A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada. Middle-aged Polish Jew Jakob Beer reflects on his entire life. When he was an adolescent during World War II, Nazis shot his parents dead and hauled away his sister Bella; he witnessed these events from a hideout in their home.
