Winter Crypt
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Winter Crypt
14.99 €
Anne Michaels is a distinguished Canadian poet and writer, winner and finalist of numerous international awards, and "an author of unique and compelling power" (The Times). Her books have become international bestsellers and have been adapted for film, translated into 45 languages. Her third novel, When They Hold Us, is a finalist for the 2024 Booker Prize and the Prix Femina Étranger, and winner of the Giller Prize and Prix Transfuge.
Written with "a terrifyingly beautiful intensity" (Sunday Telegraph), and longlisted for the IMPAC International Dublin Prize and shortlisted for the Trillium, Giller, and Commonwealth Writers' Prizes, The Winter Vault, an intellectual bestseller, begins in 1964 Egypt, where an army of international specialists is working to dismantle and relocate the ancient temple of Abu Simbel, which is threatened by the floodwaters of a new reservoir created on the Nile by the High Aswan Dam. Here, "the future casts a shadow over the past," here, "regret is not the end of history; it is its middle," here, "love is... leaving everything behind." Here, Canadian engineer Avery and his young wife Jean "have to seize not their last chance, but their lost one" in an attempt to find their way back to each other because "you can't draw a line between one kind of love and another," and "there's more in our memories than we remember."
Written with "a terrifyingly beautiful intensity" (Sunday Telegraph), and longlisted for the IMPAC International Dublin Prize and shortlisted for the Trillium, Giller, and Commonwealth Writers' Prizes, The Winter Vault, an intellectual bestseller, begins in 1964 Egypt, where an army of international specialists is working to dismantle and relocate the ancient temple of Abu Simbel, which is threatened by the floodwaters of a new reservoir created on the Nile by the High Aswan Dam. Here, "the future casts a shadow over the past," here, "regret is not the end of history; it is its middle," here, "love is... leaving everything behind." Here, Canadian engineer Avery and his young wife Jean "have to seize not their last chance, but their lost one" in an attempt to find their way back to each other because "you can't draw a line between one kind of love and another," and "there's more in our memories than we remember."
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series A Great Romance