The Winter Vault

by Anne Michaels | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 9780747599012 Global Overview for this book
Registered by cat207 on 5/23/2009
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Journal Entry 1 by cat207 on Saturday, May 23, 2009
'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 sixty 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.

But not everything can be saved once the floodgates have opened. Villages will be deluged. Graves will be moved. Thousands will be exiled from their ancient homes and from the river that has been their lifeblood, and no feat of engineering can prevent this.

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.

Weaving historical moments with the quiet intimacy of human lives, "The Winter Vault" tells of the ways in which we salvage what we can from the violence of life. It is the story of a husband and a wife trying to find their way back to each other; of people and nations displaced and uprooted and of the myriad means by which we all seek out a place we can call home.

It is a breathtaking and heartbreaking novel about the inescapability of memories, the devastation of loss, and the restorative power of love.'

Journal Entry 2 by cat207 at Gladstone, Queensland Australia on Wednesday, June 19, 2013
I can't believe this has waited four years to be read, but worth the wait - absolutely beautiful.

Finished in Monterey, California but I'll keep it until I get to Washington DC so I have at least one book to leave with the BC in DC group I'll be meeting.

Journal Entry 3 by cat207 at Elevated Acre in New York City, New York USA on Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Released 10 yrs ago (6/25/2013 UTC) at Elevated Acre in New York City, New York USA

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I was going to keep this one for Washington DC, but then got the opportunity to meet with some NYC Bookcrossers, so took it along for release.

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Journal Entry 4 by SKingList at New York City, New York USA on Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Hi Cat. It was great to meet you and your other half. So glad you were able to stop by during your NYC visit. Hope you had a good dinner/viewing of the night lights. Look forward to seeing you again in another city where our BC travels take us.

This looks like an interesting book. Likely on to http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/scorpiomama next who loves Egypt.

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