The Winter Vault
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 sepa…
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- ISBN: 978-0-307-45576-5
- EAN: 9780307455765
- Produktnummer: 19438337
- Verlag: Vintage
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 341 S.
- Masse: H20.2 cm x B14.1 cm x D2.0 cm 240 g
- Gewicht: 240
Über den Autor
Anne Michaels’s first novel was the international best seller Fugitive Pieces, now a major motion picture. It won several awards, including the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Guardian Fiction Award, and the Orange Prize for Fiction. Michaels is also the author of three highly acclaimed poetry collections. She lives in Toronto.
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