Anne Michaels Libros

La nueva novela de la autora de Piezas en fuga ofrece una conmovedora historia de amor y lealtad a través de generaciones. Ambientada en 1917, John, un soldado herido en un campo de batalla, se encuentra atrapado entre el pasado y el presente mientras la nieve cae. En 1920, de regreso en North Yorkshire, intenta reconstruir su vida con Helena y su negocio de fotografía, pero los fantasmas de la guerra lo persiguen, manifestándose en sus imágenes. La narrativa abarca cuatro generaciones, explorando conexiones que se reavivan a lo largo del siglo, iluminadas por momentos de deseo y transformación. La crítica destaca la prosa luminiscente de la autora, que mantiene un hechizo constante y ofrece una exploración profunda del trauma, la pérdida y el amor. Se resalta su habilidad para equilibrar las atrocidades de la historia con la calidez de las relaciones humanas, encontrando conexiones sanadoras en circunstancias difíciles. La novela se mueve entre 1917 y 2025, capturando la esencia de la memoria y su persistencia, mientras revela la belleza y complejidad de la experiencia humana. Con una firmeza intelectual y un corazón tierno, la autora presenta una obra excepcional que invita a la reflexión sobre el tiempo y la memoria.

A collection of poems by Anne Michaels. The poems are meditations onhow love changes in order to survive, how we move from "obsoletescience" to new perceptions, and how, in her words, "the sameloneliness that closes us/ Opens us again".

From the author of "Fugitive Pieces", this work provides a collection of poems, meditations on how love changes in order to survive and how we move from "obsolete science" to new perceptions.

Poems of elegy in the aftermath of a great love from the internationally best-selling, award-winning novelist (Fugitive Pieces, The Winter Vault) and poet. In All We Saw, Anne Michaels returns with strikingly original poems to explore one of her essential concerns: "what love makes us capable of, and incapable of." Here are the ways in which passion must accept, must insist, that "death . . . give / not only take from us." This piercing short collection treats desire in a style that is chaste, spare, figuratively modulated, and almost classical in its precision. In lyrics that ponder what happens to the bodies of lovers--so vital when together, different when apart, death coming to one before the other--Michaels embraces both the intimacy and the vastness of the connection between two people. Love's sheltering understanding is a powerful presence in all the poems, with its particular imagery (the ringing fog, the white page of the bed), as is the shattering loss of its end. With Michaels, we enter a space that is "not inside / not outside: dusk's / doorway," where memory might be kept alive.

For fans of Mary Poppins, heroine Miss Petitfour and her feline friends return for more flights of fancy in this cozy, charming collection of illustrated stories, now in paperback. Miss Petitfour enjoys having adventures that are "just the right size" for a "single, magical day." With her sixteen cats and the aid of a tablecloth as a makeshift balloon, Miss Petitfour soars — which is to say, she rises high in the air and flies — over her charmingly eccentric village, encountering adventures along the way. One never knows where the wind will take her in this delightfully seasonal collection of magical outings: perhaps to the aid of dearly loved friends and neighbors, including a hapless handyman and an onion-loving baby, or to a coconut-confetti parade, or in search of keys, lucky charms or even simply the perfect tablecloth for her next flight. A witty, whimsical, beautifully illustrated collection of tales that celebrate language, storytelling and all the pleasures of life, large and small!

Anne Michaels’ spellbinding début novel has quickly become one of the most beloved and talked-about books of the decade. As a young boy during the Second World War, Jakob Beer is rescued from the mud in Poland by an unlikely saviour, the scientist Athos Roussos, and he is taken to Greece, then, at war’s end, to Toronto. It is here that his loss gradually surfaces, as does the haunting question of his sister’s fate. Later in life, as a translator and a poet, and now with the glorious Michaela, Jakob meets Ben, a young professor whose own legacies of the war kindle within him a fascination with the older man and his writing. Fugitive Pieces is a work of rare vision that is at once lyrical, sensual, profound. With its vivid evocation of landscape and character, its unique excavation of memory and time, it is a wholly unforgettable novel that draws us into the lives of its characters with compassion and recognition.

Meet the utterly irresistible Miss Petitfour (a name of unknown origin but possibly descended from bakers of tiny delicious cakes). She loves baking and making and dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly. All she has to do is pick up a favourite tablecloth (preferably the one with the paisley print), catch the breeze and she swooshes off on an adventure - with her many cats (Minky, Misty, Taffy, Purrsia, Pirate, Mustard, Moutarde, Hemdala, Earring, Grigorovich, Clasby, Captain Captain, Captain Catkin, Captain Clothespin, Your Shyness and Sizzles) dangling paw-to-tail behind her.In five utterly captivating stories of gentle adventure, delicious edibles (with cheese for the cats), occasional peril and heart-zinging warmth, poet and novelist Anne Michaels (author of bestselling, award-winning Fugitive Pieces) makes a charming, purrfect debut as a children's author.

A young boy, Jakob Beer, is rescued from the muddy ruins of a buried Polish village in Nazi-occupied Poland, during the Second World War. Of his family, he is the only one who has survived. He is smuggled out to an island in Greece by an unlikely saviour, the scientist and humanist Athos Roussos. There, in the seclusion and tenderness of Athos's house, they spend the last years of the Occupation in a precarious refuge made lavish with poetry and cartography, botany and art. In the novel's second part, Ben, a young professor and an expert in the drama of weather and biography, meets the now sixty-year-old Jacob and his ardent and glorious Michaela at the home of a mutual friend. The quiet elation Ben senses in the older man, and Ben's own connection to the wounding legacies of the war, kindle a fascination with Jakob and his writing, disturbing the safety of his carefully ordered world. A novel of astounding beauty and wisdom, Fugitive Pieces is a profound meditation on the resilience of the human spirit and love's ability to resurrect even the most damaged of hearts.

Anne Michaels, an accomplished poet, has already published two collections of poetry in her native Canada. She turns her hand to fiction in an impressive debut novel, Fugitive Pieces . This is the story of Jakob Beer, a Polish Jew, translator, and poet who, as a child, witnessed his family's slaughter at the hands of the Nazis. Beer himself was found and smuggled out of Poland by Athos Roussos, a Greek archaeologist who carried him back to Greece and kept him there in precarious safety. After the war they emigrated together to Canada. Jakob's story is told through diaries discovered by Ben, a young man whose parents are Holocaust survivors and who is a vessel for their memories just as Jakob is the bearer of his own. Fugitive Pieces is a book about memory and forgetting. How is it possible to love the living when our hearts are still with the dead? What is the difference between what historical fact tells us and what we remember? More than that, the novel is a meditation on the power of language to free our souls and allow us to find our own destinies.

In 1964 Egypt, the monumental task of relocating the Abu Simbel temple from the rising waters of the Aswan Dam falls to Avery, a young engineer. As he meticulously oversees the dismantling and reconstruction of the temple sixty meters higher, he is also joyfully building a life with his new wife, Jean. However, the floodgates' opening brings irreversible changes: entire villages will be submerged, graves relocated, and thousands displaced from their ancestral homes, with no engineering solution to prevent the devastation. Amidst this turmoil, Avery and Jean face a profound personal loss, leading them on separate paths through grief that take them from Egypt to Canada and beyond, exploring landscapes altered by flooding and war. Their journey intersects with that of a guerrilla painter in war-torn Poland, whose own narrative of destruction and rebuilding mirrors their experiences. The story intricately weaves historical events with the intimate struggles of its characters, capturing the universal quest for belonging and home. It is a breathtaking exploration of memory, loss, and the healing power of love, revealing how individuals and nations navigate the complexities of displacement and the search for connection.