The Winter Vault

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Synopsis
The long-awaited novel by the internationally celebrated author ofFugitive Pieces, the debut novel that catapulted Anne Michaels into the forefront of literary superstars. “The future casts its shadow on the past. In this way, first gestures contain everything . . . ” Anne Michaels’s first work of fiction in more than a decade,The Winter Vaultis a stunning, richly layered, and timeless novel that is everything we could hope for for Michaels’s second novel — and more. Set in Canada and Egypt, and with flashbacks to England and Poland after the war,The Winter Vaultis a spellbinding love story that juxtaposes momentous historical events with the most intimate moments of individual lives. In 1964, a newly married Canadian couple settle into a houseboat on the Nile just below Abu Simbel. At the time of the building of the Aswam dam, Avery Escher is one of the engineers responsible for the dismantling and reconstruction of a sacred temple, a “machine-worshipper” who is nonetheless sensitive to their destructive power. Jean is a botanist by avocation, passionately interested in everything that grows. They met on the banks of the St. Lawrence River, witnessing the construction of the Seaway as it swallowed towns, homes, and lives. Now, at the edge of another world about to be inundated in the name of progress, much of what they most believe in is tested. When a tragic event occurs, nearing the end of Avery’s time in Egypt, he and Jean return to separate lives in Toronto; Avery to school to study architecture and Jean into the orbit of Lucjan, a Polish émigré artist whose haunting tales of occupied Warsaw pull her further from her husband, while offering her the chance to assume her most essential life. Breathtaking, vivid in its exploration of both the physical and emotional worlds of its characters, intensely moving and lyrical,The Winter Vaultis a radiant work of fiction and contains all the elements for which Anne Michaels is celebrated.
Copyright:
2009

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ISBN-13:
9780307271532
Related ISBNs:
9780771059117, 9780771059094, 9780771058905, 9780747598091, 9781408801086, 9781408806043, 9780307270825, 9780307455765, 9781400192458, 9781408429891
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Alfred A. Knopf
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Copyrighted By:
Anne Michaels
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Language:
English
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Literature and Fiction
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