The Winter Vault
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…
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March 29, 2011
ANNE MICHAELS is an internationally award-winning novelist and poet emeritus of Toronto. Her adult books have been translated into more than forty-five languages. She is the winner of the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Trillium Book Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize and twice for the Giller Prize. She has also been twice longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her novel Fugitive Pieces was made into a feature film.
The Further Adventures of Miss Petitfour
Anne Michaels; illustrations by Emma Block
Held
Anne Michaels
The Adventures of Miss Petitfour
Anne Michaels; illustrated by Emma Block
All We Saw
Anne Michaels
Correspondences
Anne Michaels, with artwork by Bernice Eisenstein
The Winter Vault
Anne Michaels
Fugitive Pieces
Anne Michaels
Skin Divers
Anne Michaels