He is discovered by Athos (Rade Sherbedgia), a Greek archeologist who adopts him and raises him as his own son. A moving tale of survival becomes a grave and stately hymn to the revivifying qualities of language and learning in this impressive debut by a Canadian poet. FUGITIVE PIECES is a poetic, emotional movie that follows the life of Jakob (Robbie Kay as young Jakob), a Jewish Polish boy who escapes from the Nazis after his father is killed and his sister and mother are taken away. Fugitive Pieces by Jeremy Podeswa whose father was a Holocaust survivor, touches on an often-overlooked aspect of the tragedy, that those who have managed to survive deep trauma may be unable to rid themselves of their obsessions. 294 pages. Published: 28 May 2009 . In the first part our narrator is Jakob, who is rescued as a child by a Greek man, Athos who smuggles him into Greece, and thereby saves his life, having rescued him from the Holocaust. In Book I, sixty-year-old poet/scientist Jakob Beer looks back over his life from the time he escapes death at the hands of the Nazis until he succeeds in writing poetry, splitting his time between Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and … T he story that Fugitive Pieces sets out to tell is easy to turn into a summary. The first centers around Jakob Beer, a Polish Holocaust survivor while the second involves a man named Ben, the son of two Holocaust survivors.It was first published in Canada in 1996 and was published in the United Kingdom the following year. It may be unfilmable, and in pursuit of sensitivity, Canadian writer-director Jeremy Podeswa hollows out the novel's urgency in favor of a vaguely spiritual morbidity. Fugitive Pieces is divided unequally into two parts. Fugitive Pieces was translated into twenty languages and was on the Canadian best-sellers list for more than two years after its publication.

User Reviews Review this title 23 Reviews. Fugitive Pieces was accorded the honor of opening the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, and it became the latest in a long line of Opening Night movies to have trouble securing a distributor. Fugitive Pieces, a novel by the poet Anne Michaels is a book of two narrators. By Anne Michaels. Fugitive Pieces is a cerebral excavation into history, written in lush cadences meant to be read or recited. FUGITIVE PIECES. Fugitive Pieces is a quiet and sensitive film that has a touching poetic quality and Robbie Kay turns in one of the best child performances I have seen in years. It won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, the Orange Prize for Fiction, and the Guardian Fiction Prize, as well as the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize. Fiction.