{"product_id":"9780771059117","title":"The Winter Vault","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Winter Vault\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning, richly layered, and timeless novel that is everything we could hope  for for Michaels’s second novel—and more. Set in Canada and Egypt, and with flashbacks  to England and Poland after the war,\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Winter Vault\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis a spellbinding love story  that juxtaposes momentous historical events with the most intimate moments of individual  lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 1964, a newly married Canadian couple settle into a houseboat on the Nile  just below Abu Simbel. At the time of the building of the Aswam dam, Avery Escher  is one of the engineers responsible for the dismantling and reconstruction of a sacred  temple, a “machine-worshipper” who is nonetheless sensitive to their destructive  power. Jean is a botanist by avocation, passionately interested in everything that  grows. They met on the banks of the St. Lawrence River, witnessing the construction  of the Seaway as it swallowed towns, homes, and lives. Now, at the edge of another  world about to be inundated in the name of progress, much of what they most believe  in is tested.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When a tragic event occurs, nearing the end of Avery’s time in Egypt,  he and Jean return to separate lives in Toronto; Avery to school to study architecture  and Jean into the orbit of Lucjan, a Polish émigré artist whose haunting tales of  occupied Warsaw pull her further from her husband, while offering her the chance  to assume her most essential life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Breathtaking, vivid in its exploration of both  the physical and emotional worlds of its characters, intensely moving and lyrical,  \u003ci\u003eThe Winter Vault\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis a radiant work of fiction and contains all the elements for which  Anne Michaels is celebrated.","brand":"Anne Michaels (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":44186783350944,"sku":"9780771059117","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":56828989079712,"sku":"9780771059117","price":12.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_2d5f089e-0045-4f15-ba42-1820b4b3eca2.jpg?v=1732142352","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9780771059117","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}