Fugitive Pieces
Author: Anne Michaels
Anne Michaels, an accomplished poet, has already published two collections of poetry in her native Canada. She turns her hand to fiction in an impressive debut novel, Fugitive Pieces.This is the story of Jakob Beer, a Polish Jew, translator, and poet who, as a child, witnessed his family’s slaughter at the hands of the Nazis. Beer himself was found and smuggled out of Pola….Read More
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