Fugitive Pieces Nicola Struggling to prevent the outbreak

Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war are a young woman intelligence officer

She knew about the poison in the cabinet

In this Decameron-like serial novel

and their starkly different personalities have pulled them apart

holy men and hucksters

Fugitive Pieces Nicola Struggling to prevent the outbreakA poetic and profoundly moving exploration of loss, memory and the enduring echoes of trauma. Jakob Beer is a Polish Jewish boy who survives the Holocaust after witnessing the murder of his family. Hidden in the forests of Poland, Jakob is rescued by Athos, a Greek geologist who smuggles him to the island of Zakynthos and eventually to Canada. In exile, Jakob grows into a writer and translator, his life shaped by silence, grief, and the quiet acts of