The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels

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 at the same time is carefully, and joyfully, constructing a shared life with his new wife, Jean. As the temple is taken apart and rebuilt, Avery and Jean suffer a terrible loss of their own. Their separate journeys through the landscape of grief will take them from Egypt, to Canada, to lands that have been flooded and reconfigured and homes that have been lost, to a guerrilla painter of the past whose story of destruction, reconstruction and replication in war-devastated Poland is built out of equal parts of hope and despair. This 2009 Bloomsbury Publishing Paperback is in good condition. Owner's Name inside.

ISBN: 9780747599012 SKU: 1578575 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

SKU: 1578575
Location: Fiction