by Anne Michaels · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420429441
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«Piezas en fuga» is the historical novel by Anne Michaels, published by Alfaguara in paperback (312 pages, in Spanish).
During World War II, the Polish boy Jakob Beer is rescued from the mud by the scientist Athos Roussos and grows up on a Greek island. In Canada, now a poet and translator, he meets Ben, a young professor fascinated by the memory of the war; the encounter between them shakes Jakob's life.
The original English work is 'Fugitive Pieces' (1996) and the Spanish translation is by Eva Cruz García. The work won the Guardian Fiction Award and the Orange Prize in 1997.
For readers of historical and literary fiction, with an interest in World War II, memory and the Holocaust.
Anne Michaels 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. Michaels won the 2024 Giller Prize for her novel Held.
