The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
In The Winter Vault, award-winning poet and novelist Anne Michaels crafts a love story of extraordinary depth and complexity, juxtaposing historic dislocations with the most intimate moments of individual lives.In 1964, a newly married Canadian couple settles into a Nile River houseboat moored below the towering figures of Abu Simbel. Avery is one of the engineers responsible for moving the temple above the rapidly rising waters of the Aswan Dam. At the edge of a world about to be lost forever, Avery and and his new wife Jean begin to create their own world. But it will not be enough to bind them when tragedy strikes and they go back to separate lives in Toronto. There Jean meets Lucjan, a Polish artist whose haunting stories of his shattered childhood in occupied Warsaw draw her further away from Avery. But, in time, he will also show her the way back to consolation and forgiveness.
Anne Michaels is the author of three critically praised poetry collections: The Weight of Oranges (1986), which won the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas; Miner's Pond (1991), which won the Canadian Writers Association Award and was nominated for the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Award (these two volumes were reprinted in a single volume in 1997); and Skin Divers (1999). Anne Michaels' first novel, Fugitive Pieces (1996), was a multi-award-winning, international bestseller. It was the number one best-selling book in Canada for more than two years. The novel has won a number of literary awards, including the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award, the City of Toronto Book Award, the Martin & Beatrice Fischer Award, the Trillium Book Award, and a Heritage Toronto Award of Merit. The Orange Prize for Fiction, the Jewish Quarterly Prize for Fiction, and the Guardian Fiction Award are all held in the United Kingdom.
The Harold Ribalow Award and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in the United States. In Italy, the Giuseppe Acerbi Literary Prize is given. Anne Michaels is now working on her next novel in Toronto.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780307455765 |
| ISBN 10 | 0307455769 |
| Title | The Winter Vault |
| Author | Anne Michaels |
| Series | Vintage International |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2010-04-06 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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