Fugitive Pieces

Anne Michaels

Jul 2021 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Anne Michaels

About this audiobook

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 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.

About the author

ANNE MICHAELS is a novelist and poet. Her books have been translated into more than fifty languages and have won dozens of international awards. Her longtime #1 international bestseller and multiple prize-winning novel, Fugitive Pieces, was adapted as a major motion picture and won, among many other awards internationally, the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and the Lannan Award for Fiction. Her novel, The Winter Vault, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Trillium Award, and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, among others. Her highly acclaimed and award-winning books of poetry include All We Saw, which was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. In 2020, her novel Fugitive Pieces was chosen for BBC Arts’ “100 Novels that Shaped the World.”