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Title: Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels, Neil Munro, Diego Matamoros ISBN: 0-86492-249-3 Publisher: Goose Lane Editions Pub. Date: May, 2003 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.73 (126 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The ravages of war, and the redemptive power of language.
Comment: Poet Anne Michaels' debut novel is a beautifully written, ambitious book about the power of language and love to redeem what has been destroyed by the catastrophe of the Holocaust. Jacob Beer, the fictional poet whose memoirs make up the bulk of the narrative, loses his family to the Nazi death camps, and survives only because he is hidden in a cupboard as his family is dragged from their home in Poland. He is found wandering in the woods by a Greek archeologist/geologist named Athos, who smuggles the boy to a Greek island, where he hides for the remainder of the war. The novel's power lies in the force of the author's language--startling images, pithy phrases about the nature of loss, love, and longing--and in Jacob Beer's compelling voice. The latter part of the novel, narrated by the son of Holocaust survivors who finds redemption through Jacob's written legacy, is less convincing, although still well rendered. Put in simplistic terms, the love of a good woman and poetic language save both men. Despite some minor flaws, Fugitive Pieces is one of the year's best books. It is currently on the best seller lists in England and Germany, was a huge best seller in Canada, and should be another winning entry for Knopf in this country. The market is currently flooded with novels and memoirs about the Holocaust, and if you have to pick one, this poetic tour de force should be it
Rating: 5
Summary: Exquisite poetic prose I had to repeatedly savor; and wept.
Comment: I agreed with all other 5 star reviews, can hardly improve on their reviews, but absolutely disagreed with "audubon" and any less than 4 stars. What answer could any therapy possibly provide to the Holocaust and all its generational victims? Haven't you ever experienced the deeply healing and redemptive power of new love? I too, underlined so much, rewrote so much in my reader's journal, and just recommended this book as my latest "bible" to my entire e-mail family during a round-robin theological/philosophical debate we are having. I stared at Ms. Michaels' picture over and over, so impressed I was that a woman so young can know so much and be so wise in such exquisitely poetic prose that I could read her over and over if stranded on Zakynthos--I haven't yet had the pleasure of visiting after my 3 weeks in Greece. I hope she writes again, and put her right up there with my last latest weeper, Louise Erdrich's, Tales of Burning Love--not just Erdrich's story, but also her writing. Now I have to get Michaels' poetry. Deserved her First Novel award for every well-crafted word and sentence. (My first on-line book review, I was so moved and motivated to read others' responses since no one in my circle has yet discovered her, and to share my delight and astonishment with other appreciators.)
Rating: 5
Summary: something to think about
Comment: I am a teenager and I understand this book so I'm sure the people that call it boring or "flawed" didn't really think about it very hard. I have heard many accusations that this book was flawed or sloppy in the plotline. First of all, how can a book, especially one so poetic and deep, be flawed? It's like saying Picasso made a mistake in one of his paintings. If you see the plotline as being broken then you missed the point of the book. It takes you beyond the story, or at least it is supposed to in my opinion. The poetry of the book is a window to the deep meanings of the book. For example, the relationship between death and memory. The characters and storyline are only there to display the meaning. If you read this book, it is for the meaning, not the story, though the story is very moving. The best thing about Fugitive Pieces is that it is NOT TYPICAL. It's creative, emotional, and original; the ingredients for a true classic.
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