<b>The triumphant new novel from the author of the Orange Prize-winning <i>Fugitive Pieces</i>: a soaring and luminous story of chance and change</b>1917. 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 ¿ a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night, his childhood on a faraway coast ¿ as the snow falls. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near another river ¿ alive, but not still whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and endeavours to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures: ghosts whose messages he cannot understand<b>. </b> So begins a narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence igniting and re-igniting as the century unfolds. In luminous moments of desire, comprehension,
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<b>The triumphant new novel from the author of the Orange Prize-winning <i>Fugitive Pieces</i>: a soaring and luminous story of chance and change</b>1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a...
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Denne boka inneholder gjendiktninger av de to diktsamlingene The weight of oranges (1986) og Miner's pond (1991). Anne Michaels er særlig opptatt av forskjellige typer tid og språkets muligheter til å lindre, men samtidig fastholde minnene om...
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The prize-winning, bestselling debut novel from Anne Michaels, reissued with a striking new cover
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Egypt, 1964. The great temple at Abu Simbel must be dismantled and resurrected high above the rising waters of the Aswan Dam. This daunting task is overseen by Avery, a young engineer who, at the same time, is carefully building a life with his new wife,...
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