Journal Entry 1 by tqd from Sydney, New South Wales Australia on Sunday, July 27, 2008

A duplicate copy. (How embarrassing, I didn't realise I'd already found a second hand copy of this when I pounced on a nice new edition in the Evil Bookshop the other night.) Shall offer up for other bookcrossers who are attempting to read the "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die".

No comments, as I'm yet to read my own copy!

UPDATE 8 Aug 2008: I'm releasing this one into the Oz VBB.

UPDATE 11 Aug 2008: and chosen by crimson-tide! 

Journal Entry 2 by tqd at Sydney, New South Wales Australia on Thursday, August 14, 2008

Released 3 yrs ago (8/14/2008 UTC) at Sydney, New South Wales Australia

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In the post to crimson-tide today. Happy reading! 

Journal Entry 3 by crimson-tide from Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Thursday, August 21, 2008

Thanks tqd, this one certainly looks interesting.
A first novel, and it made the "1001 list" - that's pretty impressive.


Amazon Editorial Review:

"This first novel from an award-winning poet -- a #1 best-seller in Canada -- is certain to propel her into the front ranks of our very best practitioners of contemporary fiction.

It is a story of World War II as remembered and imagined by one of its survivors: a poet named Jakob Beer, traumatically orphaned as a young child and smuggled out of Poland, first to a Greek island (where he will return as an adult), and later to Toronto. It is the story of how, over his lifetime, Jakob learns the power of language -- to destroy, to omit, to obliterate, but also to restore and to conjure, witness and tell -- as he comes to understand and experience what was lost to him and of what is possible for him to regain.

Profoundly moving, brilliantly written -- as sensual and lyric as it is emotionally resonant -- 'Fugitive Pieces' delves into the most difficult workings of the human heart and mind: the grief and healing of remembrance. It is a first novel of astonishing achievement." 

Journal Entry 4 by crimson-tide at Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Friday, February 10, 2012

Not sure at this stage exactly what to say, having just finished reading and still thinking... Took me a while to read, but not all the fault of the book.

I agree with the review above in saying "Profoundly moving, brilliantly written -- as sensual and lyric as it is emotionally resonant."

It is not just Jacob's story though, it is also the story of the next generation and how experiences and their attendant emotional repercussions percolate down through the years. The language is beautiful, the result is masterful.


Now reserved for the 1001+ Books VBB.