Fluchtstücke

by Anne Michaels, Beatrice Howeg

Der siebenjährige Jakob Beer, der einzige Überlebende einer jüdischen Familie, irrt - man schreibt das Jahr 1942 - allein durch die polnischen Wälder und versteckt sich in einer Ausgrabungsstätte. Dort findet ihn der griechische Archäologe Athos, der ihn rettet und nach Griechenland schmuggelt. Von ihm lernt Jakob alles: die Geologie, die Geschichte, die Dichtkunst und die Bedeutung der Liebe. Die Liebe ist für Jakob mehr als eine tiefe Verbindung zwischen zwei Menschen, sie ist in einer unendlich grausamen Welt das einzige Überlebensprinzip.

Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Canada, War, Holocaust, Historical, Book Club

331 pages, Hardcover

First published May 11, 1996

About the author

Anne Michaels (born 15 April 1958) is a Canadian poet and novelist whose work has been translated and published in over 45 countries. Her books have garnered dozens of international awards including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Lannan Award for Fiction and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Americas. She is the recipient of honorary degrees, the Guggenheim Fellowship and many other honours. She has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, twice shortlisted for the Giller Prize and twice long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award. Michaels won a 2019 Vine Award for Infinite Gradation, her first volume of non-fiction. Michaels was the poet laureate of Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 2016 to 2019, and she is perhaps best known for her novel Fugitive Pieces, which was adapted for the screen in 2007.