The Winter Vault (Vintage International)

by Anne Michaels | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0307455769 Global Overview for this book
Registered by hedgehoggie of Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia on 10/21/2010
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3 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by hedgehoggie from Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia on Thursday, October 21, 2010
loved another by this author but this one lost me in the detail about building canals...but worth a read neverthrless..

Journal Entry 2 by catsalive at Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Friday, October 22, 2010
Picked up at the Unconventional barby last night.

cover blurb:
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.

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 guerilla painter of the past whose story of destruction, reconstruction and replication in war-devastated Poland is built out of equal parts 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 3 by catsalive at Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Sunday, November 28, 2010
This left me unmoved & wondering why I wasted my time. I quite enjoyed the detail about moving the temple, and some of the stuff about the St.Lawrence seaway, but I felt indifferent to the main characters' stories. I skimmed the 2nd half because I'd lost interest.

Journal Entry 4 by catsalive at Post office, A book trading site -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, November 28, 2010

Released 13 yrs ago (11/29/2010 UTC) at Post office, A book trading site -- Controlled Releases

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Sent to crimson-tide for the make me read it relay.

Journal Entry 5 by wingcrimson-tidewing at Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Monday, December 6, 2010
Arrived with lots of travelling companions. Thanks very much cats.
I've heard good and I've heard not so good, which usually makes for interesting reading!

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