by Anne Michaels · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420405414
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«La cripta de invierno» is the historical novel by Anne Michaels, published by Alfaguara in paperback (328 pages, in Spanish).
In 1964, engineer Avery Escher and his wife Jean arrive in Egypt, where he oversees the dismantling of the Temple of Abu Simbel, threatened by the construction of the Aswan Dam. On their floating home on the Nile, they recall their past: Avery's childhood during World War II and Jean's in Canada. A novel about memory and loss.
Translation by María Eva Cruz García; work originally published in English. First edition: 3 February 2010, in the Literaturas collection.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction seeking stories about memory, loss, and the weight of the past.
Anne Michaels is a Canadian poet and novelist whose work has been translated and published in over 45 countries. Her books have garnered dozens of international awards including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Lannan Award for Fiction and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Americas. She is the recipient of honorary degrees, the Guggenheim Fellowship and many other honours. She has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, twice shortlisted for the Giller Prize and twice long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award. Michaels won a 2019 Vine Award for Infinite Gradation, her first volume of non-fiction. Michaels was the poet laureate of Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 2016 to 2019, and she is perhaps best known for her novel Fugitive Pieces, which was adapted for the screen in 2007. Michaels won the 2024 Giller Prize for her novel Held.
