{"title":"Anne Michaels","description":"Anne Michaels's books have been translated into more than forty-five languages and have won dozens of international awards, including the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. She has been short-listed for the Governor General's Literary Award and the Griffin Poetry Prize, twice shortlisted for the Giller Prize, and twice long-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her novel Fugitive Pieces was adapted into a feature film. From 2015 to 2019, she was Toronto's poet laureate. She lives in Canada.","products":[{"product_id":"held-paperback","title":"Held - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA breathtaking, ineffable new novel from the author of the international best sellers \u003ci\u003eFugitive Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Winter Vault\u003c\/i\u003e--a story of love and loyalty across generations, at once sweeping and intimate\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory as the snow falls--a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near a different river. He is alive but still not whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and tries to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures: ghosts with messages he cannot understand. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo begins a narrative that spans four generations of connections and consequences that ignite and reignite as the century unfolds. In radiant moments of desire, comprehension, longing, and transcendence, the sparks fly upward, working their transformations decades later. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeld \u003c\/i\u003eis affecting and intensely beautiful, full of mystery, wisdom, and compassion, a novel by a writer at the height of her powers.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103793025247,"sku":"9780593470848","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ixy3Xbu-fw9780593470848.webp?v=1781097635"},{"product_id":"the-winter-vault-paperback","title":"The Winter Vault - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Winter Vault, \u003c\/i\u003eaward-winning poet and novelist Anne Michaels crafts a love story of extraordinary depth and complexity, juxtaposing historic dislocations with the most intimate moments of individual lives. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1964, a newly married Canadian couple settles into a Nile River houseboat moored below the towering figures of Abu Simbel. Avery is one of the engineers responsible for moving the temple above the rapidly rising waters of the Aswan Dam. At the edge of a world about to be lost forever, Avery and and his new wife Jean begin to create their own world. But it will not be enough to bind them when tragedy strikes and they go back to separate lives in Toronto. There Jean meets Lucjan, a Polish artist whose haunting stories of his shattered childhood in occupied Warsaw draw her further away from Avery. But, in time, he will also show her the way back to consolation and forgiveness.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104514379999,"sku":"9780307455765","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/xHSqAMdd679780307455765.webp?v=1781108500"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/anne-michaels.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}