The Winter Vault

ISBN-13: 9781408801086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 352 str.

Anne Michaels

Opis

Egypt, 1964. The great temple at Abu Simbel must be rescued from the rising waters of the Aswan Dam. Block by block it is to be dismantled and resurrected 60 metres higher. This most delicate and daunting of tasks is overseen by Avery, a young engineer who is carefully constructing a shared life with his new wife, Jean.

Recenzje

'Writing of dangerously beautiful intensity ... magnificent' Sunday Telegraph

O autorze

Anne Michaels is a novelist and poet. Her books are translated into more than fifty languages and have won dozens of international awards, including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and the Lannan Award for Fiction. Among many other honours she is a Guggenheim Fellow, has received honorary degrees, and has served as Toronto's Poet Laureate. Her novel Fugitive Pieces was adapted as a feature film. Her most recent books include All We Saw, Infinite Gradation and Railtracks (co-written with John Berger). In 2020, her novel Fugitive Pieces was chosen as one of the BBC's 100 Novels that Shaped the World.