![]() He hides in the forest, burying himself up to the neck in the soil. His house is stormed by Nazis he escapes the fate of his parents and his sister, Bella, by hiding behind the wallpaper in a cabinet. Jakob Beer is a 7-year-old child of a Jewish family living in Poland. ![]() The novel is split into two sections: Book I and Book II. ![]() For over two years the novel was on Canada's bestseller list, and it was translated into over 20 different languages. Since the publication, the novel has won awards such as Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, Orange Prize for Fiction, Guardian Fiction Prize and the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize. It was first published in Canada in 1996 and was published in the United Kingdom the following year. The first centers around Jakob Beer, a Polish Holocaust survivor while the second involves a man named Ben, the son of two Holocaust survivors. Fugitive Pieces is a novel by Canadian poet and novelist Anne Michaels. ![]()
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