EAN: 9780593536865

MICHAELS ANNE HELD

WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES BEST
HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR • A breathtaking and ineffable new novel from the author of the
international bestsellers Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault —a novel of love and loyalty
across generations  at once sweeping and intimate   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 as the snow falls—a chance encounter in a pub by a
railway  a hot bath with his lover on a winter night.  1920. 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.  So 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.   Held is affecting and intensely beautiful  full of mystery  wisdom  and
compassion  a novel by a writer at the height of her powers.

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