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The Winter Vault - Anne Michaels
The Winter Vault
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Egypt, 1964. The great temple at Abu Simbel must be dismantled and resurrected high above the rising waters of the Aswan Dam. This daunting task is overseen by Avery, a young engineer who, at the same time, is carefully building a life with his new wife, Jean. But not everything can be saved once... show more
Egypt, 1964. The great temple at Abu Simbel must be dismantled and resurrected high above the rising waters of the Aswan Dam. This daunting task is overseen by Avery, a young engineer who, at the same time, is carefully building a life with his new wife, Jean. But not everything can be saved once the floodgates have opened: villages will be deluged, thousands will be exiled from their homes, and graves will be moved. And when Avery and Jean suffer a terrible loss of their own, they begin their separate journeys through the landscape of grief. Weaving historical moments with the quiet intimacy of human lives, "The Winter Vault" is the story of a husband and a wife trying to find their way back to each other; of people and nations displaced; and of the myriad means by which we all seek out a place to call home.  

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Format: papier
ISBN: 1408801086
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
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My Reading Life rated it
5.0 The Winter Vault
Oh, the poetry of Anne Michaels' writing. I could hardly bear to finish this book. Beauty, love, history, truth, lies, creation, destruction, humans, nature. This novel is filled with all this and more.
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
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I do love an immaculate hardback with a ribbon book-mark, especially if I caught it at the one-penny mark.First sentence - Generators floodlit the temple. Some beautiful ideas and sumptuous language but just a little too d(r)ippy/far out for comfort and it covers too much ground without any defining...
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3.0 The Winter Vault
This probably falls between a 3 and a 4 star rating for me. It is just a gorgeously written book and for 3/4 of the way I was captivated, but then my interested started to wane a bit and I found it hard to get through the last 1/4th.
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