Fugitive Pieces. [Toronto]: McClelland and Stewart, Inc., [1996].
True first edition, paperback original. This edition precedes the American and British editions by a year.
Octavo. [viii], [1]-[296] pp. Publisher’s pictorial wraps. Fine.
This acclaimed first novel won the 1997 Orange Prize, Guardian Fiction Prize, Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the Trillium Book Award. This novel is about Jakob Beer, a seven-year-old Jewish child who escaped the Nazis in Poland by burying himself in a forest when his family is killed. He is rescued and adopted by a Greek geologist, who smuggles him to Greece, and later, they move to Canada. The book follows Jakob throughout his life, marriages and his poetry.
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