Download The Winter Vault AudioBook Free
In 1964, a recently married Canadian few settle into a houseboat on the Nile just below Abu Simbel. Avery is one of the designers in charge of the dismantling and reconstruction of the temple, a "machine-worshipper" who's nonetheless sensitive to their destructive vitality. Jean is a botanist by vocation, passionately thinking about anything that grows. They achieved on the banks of the St. Lawrence River, witnessing the building of the Seaway as it swallowed cities, homes, and lives. Now, at the advantage of another world about to be inundated, they create their own world, exchanging "the innocent recollections we have no idea we carry until given the gift of the eagerness of another." But when tragedy hits, they go back to split lives in Toronto: Avery to university to study architecture; and Jean in to the orbit of Lucjan, a Polish emigre musician whose haunting stories of occupied Warsaw pull her further from Avery but offer her the chance to assume her most essential life. Stunning in its explorations of both physical and mental worlds of its individuals, intensely moving and lyrical, The Winter Vault is a glowing work of fiction.
