Canadian author Anne Michaels's first novel, Fugitive Pieces, published in the UK in 1997, was described by John Berger as the most important book I have read in 40 years.
Critics were also fascinated by the dreamlike quality of the book and by Michaels's ability to move seamlessly between the intimate and the epic.
Michaels works in short, dazzling snapshot scenes, collage-like and even hallucinatory. Each paragraph is as carefully shaped as a poetic stanza and characters are constantly captured in situations that illuminate Michaels's belief that we are born to face a single moment.
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