Anne Michaels Het wintergewelf

Als een Engelse ingenieur in Egypte in 1964 de Aboe Simbel tempel probeert te redden, komt zijn huwelijk met een Canadese vrouw onder spanning te staan.

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Nederlands | 366 pagina's | De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam | 2009

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Anne Michaels The winter vault

"Overseen by Avery, a young engineer who at the same time is carefully, and joyfully, constructing a shared life with his new wife, Jean.But not everything can be saved once the floodgates have opened. Villages will be deluged. Graves will be moved. Thousands will be exiled from their ancient homes and from the river that has been their lifeblood, and no feat of engineering can prevent this.As the temple is taken apart and rebuilt, Avery and Jean suffer a terrible loss of their own. Their separate...

Engels | 352 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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