![]() ![]() ![]() His family, including his sister, Bella, is captured, but Jakob hides in a cupboard behind a sheet of wallpaper and is not taken. Nazi soldiers invade seven-year-old Jakob's house. What follows is a memoir, in which the narrator, Jakob, tells the story of his upbringing and the loss of his family in the Holocaust. In Book I, there is a brief preface in which the reader is told that the following passages are taken from the journals of a man named Jakob Beer. The novel is broken into two distinct sections. The second half of the book is narrated by Ben, a Canadian professor born of Holocaust survivors who, sent to Greece to bring back Jakob's journals, finds himself lingering in Jakob's words, trying to understand the atrocities his parents survived to bring him into the world. ![]() ![]() The book is broken into two parts, the first narrated by a Polish man named Jakob Beer who is reflecting on his childhood as a Jewish boy living in Poland during World War II. In Fugitive Pieces, a historical novel published in 1996, Canadian poet Anne Michaels explores the aftermath of war on memory, and how war shapes the psyche even when a person does not directly experience its violence. ![]()
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