The long-awaited novel by the internationally celebrated author of
Fugitive 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 Vault is 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 Vault is 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 emigre 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 Vault is a radiant work of fiction and contains all the
elements for which Anne Michaels is celebrated.
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