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Kindle store select your cookie preferences we use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads, including interestbased ads. As michaels follows jakob across two continents, she lets us witness his transformation from a halfwild casualty of the holocaust to an artist who extracts meaning from its abyss. Anne michaels s fiercely beautiful debut novel tells the interlocking stories of three men of different generations whose lives are transformed by the events and shifting effects of the same war. Womens prize for fiction christchurch city libraries. Publication date 1997 topics world war, 19391945 fiction, large type books publisher thorndike press. Poems the weight of oranges miner s pond skin divers by anne. Fa fugitive pieces af anne michaels som paperback bog pa. Fa fugitive pieces af anne michaels som bog pa engelsk 97814088953 boger rummer alle sider af livet. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 304 pages and is available in paperback format. Oct 12, 2018 hurricane michael leaves path of destruction, kills at least two people by jay reeves, brendan farrington, associated press hurricane michael makes landfall as a category 4 storm. A new york times notable book of the year winner of the lannan literary fiction award winner of the guardian fiction awa. The weight of oranges 1986, which won the commonwealth prize for the americas, and miners pond 1991, which received the canadian authors association award and was shortlisted for the governor generals award and the trillium award.
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