{"product_id":"held-anne-michaels","title":"Held (Anne Michaels)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**The international bestseller**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e**A \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003eBook of the Year**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Chosen as a book of the year by the independent.co.uk**\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Her prose is a thing of wonder' \u003ci\u003eTELEGRAPH\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Michaels's writing continues to stand head and shoulders above most other fiction' \u003ci\u003eOBSERVER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Through luminous moments of chance, change, and even grace, Michaels shows us our humanity' MARGARET ATWOOD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Michaels is exceptionally open to beauty' \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe triumphant new novel from the author of the Orange Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eFugitive Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e: a soaring and luminous story of chance and change\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_________________________________________________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 - 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1920. 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\u003cb\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo 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, longing, transcendence, the sparks fly upward, working their transformations decades later. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeld \u003c\/i\u003eis a novel like no other, by a writer at the height of her powers: affecting and intensely beautiful, full of mystery, wisdom and compassion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I am blown away by the scale, beauty, weave and thinking  of this book ... It dances with words, time and ideas in a way that seems to reinvent  everything I know about the novel' RACHEL JOYCE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAnne Michaels is a novelist and poet. Her books are translated into more than fifty languages and have won dozens of international awards, including the Orange Prize, the\u003ci\u003e Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e Fiction Prize, and the Lannan Award for Fiction. Among many other honours she is a Guggenheim Fellow, has received honorary degrees, and has served as Toronto's Poet Laureate. Her novel \u003ci\u003eFugitive Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e was adapted as a feature film. Her most recent books include \u003ci\u003eAll We Saw\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Infinite Gradation \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRailtracks\u003c\/i\u003e (co-written with John Berger). In 2020, her novel Fugitive Pieces was chosen as one of the BBC's 100 Novels that Shaped the World.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 240 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65789198598493,"sku":"K097343467","price":10.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9734346700001A.jpg?v=1788363535","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/held-anne-michaels","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}