The Winter Vault
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The Winter Vault is Anne Michaels
' second novel. The Winter Vault is the story of Avery and Jean who are living in Egypt
in 1964, when the great temple at Abu Simbel
must be rescued from the rising waters of the Asawan Dam. Avery is overseeing how the temple is taken apart and rebuilt again.
Anne Michaels
-Background:Anne Michaels was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1958. Michaels attended Vaughan Road Academy and then later the University of Toronto, where she is an adjunct faculty in the Department of English. Her first book, The Weight of Oranges , a volume of poetry, was awarded the Commonwealth...
' second novel. The Winter Vault is the story of Avery and Jean who are living in Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
in 1964, when the great temple at Abu Simbel
Abu Simbel
Abu Simbel temples refers to two massive rock temples in Abu Simbel in Nubia, southern Egypt on the western bank of Lake Nasser about 230 km southwest of Aswan...
must be rescued from the rising waters of the Asawan Dam. Avery is overseeing how the temple is taken apart and rebuilt again.