Anne Michaels

Entretejiendo los grandes momentos históricos con la callada intimidad de las vidas humanas, esta obra reflexiona sobre lo que somos capaces de salvaguardar de la violencia de la vida. Nos convertimos en nosotros mismos cuando algo nos es concedido o cuando algo nos es arrebatado Egipto, 1964. El gran templo de Abu Simbel ha de ser rescatado de la crecida de las aguas causada por la nueva presa de Asuan. Bloque a bloque sera desmantelado para luego resucitar en un terreno a mayor altura. Dirigiendo este proyecto esta Avery Escher, un joven ingeniero que acaba de llegar con su esposa. Por la noche, al acostarse en su casa flotante sobre el Nilo, Jean y Avery se trasladan al pasado -Avery a su niñez en Inglaterra durante la segunda guerra mundial, y Jean a su infancia en Canada, cuando viajaba por la orilla del rio Sr. Lawrence con su padre.Critica:Lea este libro como se lee poesia, escuchelo como se escucha la musica... Anne Michaels nos guia hasta extraordinarias cimas de sensibilidad y percepcion.The Independent

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 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.

It's Egypt, 1964. The great temple at Abu Simbel must be rescued from therising waters of the Aswa. This delicate and daunting of task is overseen byAvery, a young engineer who at the same time is carefully, and joyfully,constructing a shared life with...

This beautifully conceived book brings together the best-selling novelist and poet Anne Michaels and the acclaimed artist and writer Bernice Eisenstein in a unique, accordion-style format. Michaels' resonant book-length poem, a historical and personal elegy, unfolds on one side of the book's pages. On the other side, in unison with the poem, are Bernice Eisenstein's haunting portraits of the twentieth-century writers and thinkers Michaels' poem summons, for whom language was the closest thing to salvation: figures such as Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs, W. G. Sebald, Anna Akhmatova, Primo Levi, and Albert Einstein, each accompanied by quotations that illuminate the deeper connections among them. The poem is written to be read in sequence, as well as to join together with the portraits in a dialogue that perfectly reflects the thematic interconnectedness of this collaboration: 'an alphabet of spirits and spirit' (Eisenstein); 'the moment one life/becomes another' (Michaels). A stunning creation in both form and content, Correspondences is an unforgettable visual and poetic experience and a profound reflection on how the table of history is set by individuals.

The prize-winning, bestselling debut novel from Anne Michaels, reissued with a striking new cover

It is just months before the Nazi occupation of Poland, and, from the mud of a buried city, Jakob Beer, an orphaned Jewish boy, finds himself rescued by an unlikely saviour. He is saved by the geologist and humanist Athos Roussos, who takes him to his Greek island home where he becomes his student. But the trauma of Jakob''s early life refuses to leave him. Living forever in the shadow of the Holocaust, although Jakob has escaped the most terrible fate of all, he must yet steel himself to excavate the horrors of his own history.

Cambrai 1917. Sur un champ de bataille, John, un soldat, gît à terre à la suite dune explosion, incapable de bouger ou de sentir ses membres. Il voit ses souvenirs défiler avant de sévanouir dans une

Poems of elegy in the aftermath of a great love from the internationally best-selling, award-winning novelist (Fugitive Pieces, The Winter Vault) and poet.In All We Saw, Anne Michaels returns with strikingly original poems to explore one of her essential concerns: "what love makes us capable of, and incapable of." Here are the ways in which passion must accept, must insist, that "death . . . give / not only take from us." This piercing short collection treats desire in a style that is chaste, spare, figuratively modulated, and almost classical in its precision. In lyrics that ponder what happens to the bodies of lovers--so vital when together, different when apart, death coming to one before the other--Michaels embraces both the intimacy and the vastness of the connection between two people. Loves sheltering understanding is a powerful presence in all the poems, with its particular imagery (the ringing fog, the white page of the bed), as is the shattering loss of its end. With Michaels, we enter a space that is "not inside / not outside: dusks / doorway," where memory might be kept alive.

Anne Michaels’ spellbinding début novelhas quickly become one of the most beloved and talked-about books of the decade. As a young boy during the Second World War, Jakob Beer is rescued from the mud