The action of the intellectual bestseller «Winter Vault», written «with a fearsomely beautiful intensity» (Sunday Telegraph), which was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and shortlisted for the Trillium and Giller Prizes, as well as the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, begins in 1964 in Egypt, where an entire army of international specialists is working on the dismantling and relocation of the ancient temple of Abu Simbel, threatened by flooding from the newly formed reservoir on the Nile during the construction of the High Aswan Dam. Here, «the future casts a shadow on the past», here «regrets are not the end of the story; they are its middle», here «love is... when you leave behind all that was». Here, Canadian engineer Avery and his young wife Jean «have to catch not the last chance, but the missed one» in an attempt to find their way back to each other, because «you cannot draw a line between one kind of love and another», and «in our memories, there is more than we remember».
Ann Michaels is an outstanding Canadian poet and writer, a laureate and finalist of numerous international awards, «an author of unique and irresistible power» (The Times); her books have become international bestsellers and have been adapted into films, translated into 45 languages. Her third novel, «When We Are Held», is a finalist for the 2024 Booker Prize and the Prix Femina Étranger, as well as the winner of the Giller Prize and the Prix Transfuge.
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