as earnest as that sounds." Invited by a reader to recall how absorbing the writing of the book had been, she spoke of having spent a decade writing it, and of how the research that she undertook had on occasion "silenced" her. Michaels, however, experiences her own novel, more than a decade after its publication, as intensely as any first-time reader.Ī member of the audience detected what she called a "sense of mission" in Michaels's work, and the author was happy to agree. Some authors can appear a little embarrassed by the significance that fans might attach to their fiction. It might have seemed incongruous to be analysing this story of a traumatised Holocaust survivor in such a pastoral setting, but Michaels enters into debate with an intensity undistracted by her surroundings. On a balmy May evening at the Hay festival, Anne Michaels came to talk about Fugitive Pieces. For the first time, the Guardian book club's monthly discussion with our featured author took place away from home.
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