{"product_id":"fugitive-pieces-a-novel-winner-of-the-baileys-womens-prize-for-fiction-9780679776598","title":"Fugitive Pieces: A Novel (Winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction)","description":"A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e Winner of the Lannan Literary Fiction Award\u003cbr\u003e Winner of the Guardian Fiction Award \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eFugitive Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e is a triumphant work, a book that should not so much be read as it should be surrendered to.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Michaels\u003c\/b\u003e teaches creative writing in Toronto. Her two collections of poetry are \u003cb\u003eThe Weight of Oranges\u003c\/b\u003e (1986), which won the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas, and \u003cb\u003eMiner's Pond\u003c\/b\u003e (1991), which received the Canadian Authors Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Award. \u003cb\u003eFugitive Pieces\u003c\/b\u003e is her first novel.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50412796772626,"sku":"9780679776598","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1136f693-e1bd-40df-887a-3bab7ec894fe.jpg?v=1729328702","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/fugitive-pieces-a-novel-winner-of-the-baileys-womens-prize-for-fiction-9780679776598","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}