The Winter Vault - Softcover

Michaels, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408801086 ISBN 13: 9781408801086

Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2010

Synopsis

Egypt, 1964. The great temple at Abu Simbel must be dismantled and resurrected high above the rising waters of the Aswan Dam. This daunting task is overseen by Avery, a young engineer who, at the same time, is carefully building a life with his new wife, Jean. But not everything can be saved once the floodgates have opened: villages will be deluged, thousands will be exiled from their homes, and graves will be moved. And when Avery and Jean suffer a terrible loss of their own, they begin their separate journeys through the landscape of grief. Weaving historical moments with the quiet intimacy of human lives, "The Winter Vault" is the story of a husband and a wife trying to find their way back to each other; of people and nations displaced; and of the myriad means by which we all seek out a place to call home.

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Review:

'Writing of dangerously beautiful intensity ... magnificent' Sunday Telegraph 'Michaels is a novelist of unusual and compelling power' The Times 'A rich, full book, written with the lyricism... a bigger, bolder, more confident version of her earlier work' Guardian 'Read this book like poetry, or rather hear it like music ... Anne Michaels guides us to the top of some extraordinary peaks of feeling and perception' Independent

About the Author:

Anne Michaels is the author of three collections of poetry: The Weight of Oranges, which won the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas; Miner's Pond, which won the Canadian Authors Association Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Award; and Skin Divers. Her first novel, Fugitive Pieces, was published by Bloomsbury in 1997 to worldwide critical acclaim. It won the Orange Prize and the Guardian First Book Award among others, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Canadian Booksellers Association Author of the Year Award. It was also made into a major motion picture. Anne Michaels has also composed music for the theatre. Born in 1958, Anne Michaels lives in Toronto.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1408801086
• ISBN 13: 9781408801086
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352