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Held

Held

Michaels, Anne

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ISBN10: 059353686X
ISBN13: 9780593536865
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Jan 30 2024
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.83
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
Awards: Man Booker Prize
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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