Held

Resumen del libro

The triumphant new novel from the author of the Orange Prize-winning Fugitive Pieces: a soaring and luminous story of chance and change 1917. On a battlefield near the River Aisne, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory - a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night, his childhood on a faraway coast - as the snow falls. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near another river - alive, but not still whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and endeavours to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures: ghosts whose messages he cannot understand. So begins a narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence igniting and re-igniting as the century unfolds. In luminous moments of desire, comprehension, longing, transcendence, the sparks fly upward, working their transformations decades later. Held is a novel like no other, by a writer at the height of her powers: affecting and intensely beautiful, full of mystery, wisdom and compassion.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Anne Michaelsx{0026}lt;/B es una poeta y novelista canadiense. Su aclamada primera novela, x{0026}lt;I Piezas en fugax{0026}lt;/I (Alfaguara, 1997), obtuvo el Orange Prize y el Guardian Fiction Prize, fue adaptada al cine y ocupó durante años la lista de los libros más vendidos en Canadá. En 2020, fue elegida por la BBC como una de las cien novelas que dan forma al mundo. Su siguiente novela, x{0026}lt;I La cripta de inviernox{0026}lt;/I (Alfaguara, 2010) fue finalista del Scotiabank Giller Prize, del Trillium Book Award y del Commonwealth Writers' Prize, y fue nominada al International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P Anne Michaels es autora de cinco poemarios muy celebrados, del libro de ensayo x{0026}lt;I Infinite Gradationx{0026}lt;/I (2018) y, junto a John Berger, de la obra de teatro x{0026}lt;I Railtracks x{0026}lt;/I (2013). Sus libros han sido traducidos a más de cuarenta y cinco idiomas y ha sido galardonada con numerosos premios internacionales como el Trillium Book Award, el Premio Letterario Giusepe Acerbi, el Lannan Literary Award for Fiction y el Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Americas. Actualmente vive en Canadá. x{0026}lt;I Held x{0026}lt;/I es su esperada nueva novela.x{0026}lt;/P